initially hesitant to engage with us on this project due to the logistics of kitcirculation and concerns with how kits would fit within their existing structure of their summerreading program. To allay the library’s concerns, we worked out a plan to utilize their existingactivity registration system to sign families up and their main branch for distribution. Our teamresponded to all email inquiries from the participants, provided weekly online Q&A sessions,and restocked used materials in kits. The library maintained control over registration andcommunication with families, including all personal identifying information. Our library partnersnoted that they appreciated that we worked within their parameters of lead time for planning ofthe summer
indicate thatthe PADS has potential to measure program efficacy. In order to ensure that participating campsand after-school programs provided high quality instruction, a separate team conductedstructured observations of the Study 1 research sites. For each participating site, a trainedobserver rated two one-hour samples of sessions using the Dimensions of Success (DoS)instrument [4] that is sensitive to good engineering instruction. This team also surveyed programfacilitators to determine the overall instructional plan, and administered the Common InstrumentSuite (CIS) as a post-test to measure attitudes towards engineering among youths and facilitators[5]. This data was summarized and shared with researchers to contribute to the analysis.We are
Paper ID #37386Case Study: International Summer Research Programming ExperiencesSponsored by TAMUS LSAMPDr. Michael D. Preuss, Exquiri Consulting, LLC Michael Preuss, EdD, is the Co-founder and Lead Consultant for Exquiri Consulting, LLC. His primary focus is providing assistance to grant project teams in planning and development, through external evalu- ation, and as publication support. Most of his work involves STEM education and advancement projects and is completed for Minority-Serving Institutions. He also conducts research regarding higher education focused on the needs and interests of underserved populations and
-term objective of the team is to complete the functionality to provideautograding of individualized datasets and test it with a beta test team consisting of studentvolunteers. Assuming successful completion of that testing, we plan to implement it “live” witha predictive analytics class in the fall semester of 2023 and then make it broadly available for useby other instructors.A major planned enhancement to the generation of individualized datasets involves expandingthe randomization beyond the residuals term to the randomization of the generative modelcoefficients.Also planned is expanded dataset functionality to include categorical response vectors,generalized linear models (primarily Poisson regression), and the incorporation of
apprenticeship allowsstudents to conduct research in various STEM related topics on a college campus under thementorship of college students. The program is geared towards underserved andunderrepresented groups that may have fewer science and engineering opportunities in their area.Every college campus has mentors that oversee the apprentices’ day to day progress on a STEMrelated research project developed by the mentors. The program sought to train the mentors torun a research project by identifying a topic, setting the parameters, and managing the project.The NMT campus mentors focused on a research topic related to robotics. These mentors hadfour weeks before the apprentices came onto the campus to plan how to assist the apprentices infinishing a
staff and families throughout the planning, implementation, and analysis phases of theREACH-ECE project and used a variety of strategies to ensure that the activities and researchmethods supported an equitable vision of STEM education, including collecting and analyzingdata in the language of participants with a bilingual and bicultural research team, using strength-based approaches to conceptualizing and supporting family engineering engagement, andensuring that community partners and families were meaningful collaborators in the researchprocess [40], [41].The primary design-based research study in REACH-ECE involved three mini-cycles of activitytesting that were focused on exploring a broad research question: How do the elements
example, Intel offers several programs forstudents to learn and solidify AI skills (Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit) anddeveloping in cloud environments (Intel® Developer Cloud) [1]. For instructors, they offer acollection of lesson plans, labs, and assessments for the same curriculums mentioned [2]. In thesecond case, the company develops core products specifically meant for assisting instructors andstudents in learning. For example, Blackboard’s core product is a learning management systemfor hosting courses and handling classroom management. In addition to publishing textbooks,Pearson has developed the Mastering platform to provide interactive assessments for variouscourses and textbooks. In both of these cases, industry has an
theplayer different amounts of points. These additional features increase the difficulty level of thegame for the players.As a bonus activity, the student can implement a view of the top scores and make persistentstoring of the data in an external memory unit. It is planned that this laboratory continuesevolving, adding extra features such as letting the player go over multiple levels andconfigurable settings for the games, such as layouts, colors, and shapes.In this laboratory activity, we asked the students to develop a video game applying the conceptsof the course. We have found that the redefinition of this laboratory activity includinggamification elements has a positive impact on the student's motivation and provides a betteralignment between
and faculty housing,equipping the classroom, and planning excursions to local sites in Rome as well as two largerexcursions to Florence and to Venice. This allowed the professor (namely me) to concentrate onthe academics of the program and not which trains to book, how to get museum tickets, arrangebus drivers, or how to arrange for different tour guides. The AIA staff were extremely friendly toboth students and faculty, and provided invaluable insights into individual travel planning, Italianculture, and great local restaurants.RecruitmentEven though we had a potential pool of nearly 1000 students, we only had 14 applicants whenwe tried to run the program in 2021. We attribute this in large part to residual COVID anxiety,plus I was just
, b) view of analuminum specimen with middle hole, and c) fatigue crack initiated from the hole edge observed by the microscope.Impact on Student LearningThere were difficulties which challenged the planned schedule and initial project design. Thegreatest challenge came from finding a suitable company that could provide a particulardisplacement sensor, known as a Linear Variable Displacement Transducer (LVDT). Followingthis, there were subsequent delays in delivery time for the LVDT and other materials whichaffected the manufacturing timeline. The biggest change made to the design from the initialdesign document was the addition of more holes and screws on the crosshead bars to improve thepull-out
activities.Because of their lessons learned through the AREP process, Melissa and Isabella aremaking plans for putting students in more control of club recruitment and activities.Based on their observation that the participation of girls increased when the femalestudents brought in their friends, Melissa and Isabella hope to increase the number offemale students in the STEM Club in year 2 by encouraging the females to spread theword within their social circles to try out the club. This places the students in a positionof leadership with influence on the club’s success. Additionally, Melissa and Isabellafound that many students in the STEM Club were interested in pursuing engineeringcareers but unsure which engineering field. This uncertainty lends itself
as the gig economy [3], their recognition as a valid method for current orpotential employees to demonstrate capabilities is still lagging in manufacturing, particularlyamong smaller-sized manufacturers (P. Mintz, personal communication, February 12, 2023).The project team is currently developing a plan to utilize MEP members from TRACKS-CN tohelp educate small and medium-sized manufacturers about the benefits of micro-credentials. Inan effort to begin to develop best practices for sharing the benefits of micro-credentials withMEP clients, the PI has initiated conversations with regional managers who support the NorthCarolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership.ObjectivesAs previously mentioned, the goal of the ATE project is to enhance
organization with some combination of the organized with concept to arrange by linearly features outlined in 1 within/between branch features outlined in 2 integration and the systematic planning connected. There are and 2. Does not fit well connections. Some, but and 3. Does not fit well possible use of feedback and united effort few (or no) connections into either category. not complete, into either category. loops, if within/between the integration of branches applicable. Sophisticated
PIDcontrollers for six experimental set-ups with liquid level and temperature control, using labequipment fully automated for data acquisition, handling of manipulated and disturbancevariables, and selection of parameters for PID controllers. MATLAB codes and Simulinkgraphical simulations support the processing of data and analysis of results. In addition, thecourse develops a unique experience in team skills and performance where every team is acombination of two sub-teams. The “office” sub-team oversees research on industrialapplications, instrumentation characteristics, and computational modeling. The “lab” sub-teamoversees elaborating and testing experimental plans, collecting data, and analyzing results. Everyteam is assigned two sequential
surveys from the Graduate Student Experience in the Research University (gradSERU)online service. The fellows recognized several gaps in Purdue’s graduate mentoring experiencethat needed to be addressed: an engineering-specific individual development plan (IDP), surveysof faculty members, and educating students about taboo mentorship topics.An IDP was created for PhD or master’s students in the College of Engineering. The document isintended to guide students through four steps: a skillset self-assessment, goals for Year 1 ofgraduate school, a meeting between student and advisor, and progress updates after the first year.The IDP was published on the university website and distributed among the engineeringdepartments in August 2022 and has since
program. As a result, thisfaculty development initiative is often more difficult for academic units to support due to realand perceived budgetary and schedule sustainment constraints. Despite challenges, the casestudy will highlight that considerations other than upfront cost should be more heavily weighted.A more visible return on investment is realized through the purposeful development ofeducational objectives for the faculty development experience (in this research case, an industryresidency) and alignment and documentation of those objectives against the greater vision ofenhanced curriculum development plans. Systematic documentation of the industry residencyexperience and alignment with curricular program requirements, student learning
Common Core StateStandards [7]. Each lesson contained multiple parts of varying difficulty in an effort to guidestudents through key concepts.User feedback indicated that the multiple-part approach appeared siloed and students could beeither overwhelmed or bored with an initial step, resulting in potentially losing learners fromconcept threads altogether. In an effort to address this concern, we re-organized the content intoa curriculum with subthemes of “A Day in the Life,” “Form and Function,” “Balance,”“Movement,” and “The Literate Engineer.” The content is largely unchanged from the originallesson plans, but the ten lessons with subparts were subdivided into 32 mini-lessons. Within eachcurricular topic, lessons are further organized by level
computational essays that use text, along withcode programs, interactive diagrams, and computational tools to express an idea [7]. Theimportance of computational notebooks is to provide programming environments for developingand sharing educational materials, combining different types of resources such as text, images,and code in a single document accessible through a web browser [17]. These are specific ways inwhich the projects were scaffolded to guide students: • The tasks for each project were broken down into smaller sub-tasks. For example, as shown in Table 1 below, the sub-tasks included planning, collecting data, defining functions, performing calculations, and visualizing results. • A detailed outline or a
AccreditationCommission (ETAC) criteria and construction engineering programs at 27 institutions using itsEngineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) criteria [3].Clearly, construction management remains intertwined with engineering. This connection cannotbe ignored or discounted when studying the “supply” of construction managers. The Bureau ofLabor and Statistics (BLS) defines a construction manager as someone who “plan[s],coordinate[s], budget[s], and supervise[s] construction projects from start to finish” in theOccupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) [1]. The work of construction management (planning,coordinating, budgeting, and supervising) involves solving problems whether those problems arebefore the start of construction (planning and budgeting), during
teachingpractices. Fellows also participate in workshops to prepare inclusive teaching philosophies andlearn to create lesson plans that are aligned with the mission of their institution and incompliance with the curricular or subject plans. The deliverables are submitted for review andfeedback from the faculty mentors and the Aspire lead team. At the end of the semester, fellowssubmit a teaching portfolio as evidence of completion and participate in a closing ceremony inwhich the fellows and their mentors are recognized.IV. Similarities and Differences between RC Collaborative modelsSimilarities:Each of the two Texas RC collaboratives includes two universities; one of them is a largeresearch-intensive in an urban setting while the other is a comprehensive
problembeing addressed, a “Customer Discovery Interview Planning and Preparations Form” to getfeedback on the proposed idea by surveying potential customers, followed by “the Patent SearchAssignment Form” to investigate the patentability of the business idea. The students were alsotasked to reflect on their effort by completing a “Metacognitive Reflection Assignment” on threedistinct aspects: entrepreneurial mindset, bio-design, and art. Three groups were formed and threedesigns were selected by these groups, a climbing plant shaped decor that diffracts natural sunlight,an LED garden sign used in lighting a garden during nights to mark poison ivy spots, as well as aground stake with a climbing plant inspired mechanism aiding its anchoring function
urbanplanning method. These approaches shift the power relationships traditionally established ininterview settings and allowed student participants to shape the direction of their interviews andstorytelling.In this paper, we first describe the central ethical and justice challenges to soliciting andengaging BIPOC students in research about their experiences. After describing the goals of thestudy, we explain two key strategies that allowed us to address these challenges in our datacollection: 1) Use of boundary objects to elicit participants narratives, and 2) the integration ofparticipatory urban planning methods.We show sample data sets to explain the ways our methods provided opportunities to learn morefrom students, to gain a comprehensive
groups of five to six first year students. TheAESLAC also recruits practicing industry professionals to serve as industry mentors for thesestudent groups. Program activities throughout the semester include an icebreaker scavenger hunt,a tour of the industry mentor’s office, and an introduction to navigating building plans. Previousanalysis found that this AE Mentoring Program appeared to be “most beneficial to improvingretention of marginal students who were initially not as committed to completing the AEprogram,” however it could not be concluded that the program was the sole influence onretention numbers [8].AE Seminar Channel ProgramIn the fall semester of 2018, a new AE mentoring program, called the Channel Program, wasinitiated under the
is similar to their career aspiration, identify other LinkedIn users whocurrently hold positions similar to the freshman’s career aspiration, and evaluate the backgroundof these professionals to create a 5-year plan of steps the freshman should take to achieve theirgoal. Responses were submitted for grading to D2L (Desire2Learn), “an integrated learningplatform designed to create a single place online for instructors and students to interact” [21].Responses were organized in Microsoft Excel. The student's name, aspiring position andcompany were recorded. Each student was assigned a number to anonymize theirparticipation.(n=127, 3 semesters). The 127 students surveyed are considered representative of asingle-entry class.Nearly every company
the contracting firm and utilize the knowledge in their future semesters. The uniquenessof this faculty residency performed by one of the authors is that the author was able to transferknowledge gained to the students weekly while working on the residency. It helped the facultyresident to pre-plan the course before the beginning of the summer semester since the AGCapplications are usually approved around January of every year, and the applications detail the12-week learning outcomes. The author was able to develop the course syllabus and outlinebased on the application learning outcomes. As a new course elective, the author, who is also afaculty resident, was able to decide on the course topics and outcomes months before thebeginning of the
undertake this project. Furthermore, weassign sub-teams to specific tasks related to the proposed project plan. The graduate student,along with undergraduates, are involved in technical meetings with the academic advisors andindustry partners. In addition to the development of their research skills, our students also gainexperience in problem recognition, definition, solution, project management, communication,and presentation skills through detailed literature review, brainstorming, collaboration,teamwork, technical reports, conference presentations, and journal publications. These studentsthen graduate with an understanding of a combination of fundamentals and technology and cansupport the uptake of these ideas for their future employer
social sciences (with thelatter focusing in particular on science and technology studies or STS). We often articulate theIDSs as bridging engineering's “technical, creative, and social dimensions.” Because our socialscience faculty are largely trained in STS, “sociotechnical integration” is a departmentalhallmark, so a tagline for Design Engineering is “sociotechnical integration through design.”This approach to educating engineers has been challenged by—but also advanced because of—ABET accreditation requirements and our efforts to navigate the accreditation planning andreview.EDS offers, and therefore (mostly) controls the content of, the design spine courses (in additionto some of the focus area courses) within the overall curriculum. Because
usability.”The ABET student outcomes (General Criterion 3) include: - An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics. - An ability to apply the engineering design process to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration for public health and safety, and global, cultural, social, environmental, economic, and other factors as appropriate to the discipline. - An ability to function effectively as a member or leader of a team that establishes goals, plans tasks, meets deadlines, and creates a collaborative and inclusive environment.MethodsDocumentation analysisTo identify common and distinguishing elements across courses
participatingin and delivering high-performance sustainable infrastructure projects. Finally, this study wouldbe valuable for implementing SI and enhancing the project management skills of the future AECworkforce.BackgroundSustainable infrastructures (SI) must be planned, built, and maintained carefully to fulfill theirintended function due to their complex design and construction. Such complex projects typicallyinvolve a wide range of stakeholders. These stakeholders hold diverse roles and responsibilitiesincluding setting the project's parameters and performance standards to running and maintainingthe finished infrastructure, all of which vary as the project progresses [1]. The path to sustainablegoals, which might include zero energy, zero carbon, and
the active involvement of others: direct reports, other managers, other team members, other department employees, and those above them on the organizational chart. Sometimes even their suppliers or customers! In this course, you will learn about teamwork and people management, and gain an introduction to strategy, finance, and project management. You will practice writing concise, persuasive analyses and action plans and verbally defending your ideas.ABET student outcomes are listed below in Table 1 [3]. Outcomes that are taught and assessedin EML are denoted in the table:Table 1. Student Outcomes taught in EML: ABET # Student Outcome Taught in EML course 1 an