Paper ID #38039Work in Progress: Project-Based Service Learning Shapes the Morals ofFirst-Year Engineering StudentsDr. Fayekah Assanah, University of Connecticut Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 260 Glenbrook Road, Unit 3247, Storrs, CT 06269-3247. Dr. Assanah is the team lead for ENGR 1166: Foundations of Engineering, a core course for all first-year engineering students at the University of Connecticut consisting of over 400 students. She has developed and implemented project-based lessons to build Corsi-Rosenthal boxes for all first-year engineering stu- dents through this initiative
ideas with ingenuity, take a playful approachto their personal ideas, and share lessons learned and what came out of their projects. The entireidea being that Making is simultaneously so personally motivated by unadulterated curiosity, butalso by a community to support the exploration of ideas.The machine shop and 3D Print Labs possess attributes of Practical Ingenuity, PersonalInvention, and Community Building through a peer mentorship support system. Students areencouraged to bring in their own projects, which are inspected by certain management personnelbefore being approved. Students then work with a mentor to produce their projects and have theopportunity eventually to work in the spaces given enough time and experience in the labs
students’ feedback on the course. One of the biggestlessons learned during the initial offerings of the course was the strong student desire for a sitevisit where students could physically see the mitigation measures or resiliency issues that arediscussed. Therefore, more local and project site visits are now incorporated into the course. Aspresented in Table 1, students had an opportunity to work on a variety of projects focused ondeveloping solutions to mitigate climate-induced challenges within the local communities. Thiswas well received by students and project sponsors. Typically, some students are uncertainabout how to approach a large scale, community issue that was not a straightforward engineeringdesign. The open-ended project and absence
recognized as the Engineering Unleashed Fellow and won the Fulton Outstanding Lecturer Award for her contributions in Engineering Education.Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University Amy Trowbridge is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Ari- zona State University and is co-Director of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) at ASU. Amy is a member of the current interim Executive Committee for the international GCSP Network, and mentors schools to develop GCSPs as part of the GCSP New Programs committee. She is also actively involved in the ASU Kern project and Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), focused on students’ de- velopment of entrepreneurial mindset
development and delivery of a9-unit Graduate Certificate in Data Science for Biology and Chemistry. The GOLD program isalso an interdisciplinary computing program aimed at students in the Biology and Chemistrydepartments - in this case, master’s students - and it builds on the structure and institutionalsupport implemented in the PINC program, including requiring one of the courses designed forthe PINC minor. In early interviews with PINC students, they indicated that the cohort structureand peer mentor support helped them stay motivated, build relationships with their peers, anddevelop an identity as scientists and programmers; using this feedback as a guide, these aspectswere also incorporated into the GOLD program structure. GOLD PI Rohlfs
2013). However, measuring the effects of entrepreneurship education on learning andbehavior, particularly across programs or institutions, requires consensus on learning objectives,instructional strategies, and assessment of impact (e.g. Finardi, 2013; Fayolle & Gailly, 2015;Nabi, Liñán, Fayolle, Krueger, & Walmsley, 2017; Nabi, Walmsley. Liñán, Akhtar & Neame,2018). To date, there are few examples of large-scale programs that allow for comparisons acrosspopulations or pedagogical approaches that would lead us to generalizable conclusions.Therefore, the selective national I-Corps program presents a unique opportunity to explore theimpact of entrepreneurship education at a large scale and to respond to calls for greater researchinto
. Comparative case studies and analyses were introduced with breakout room discussion to help students comprehend the interplay among science, technology and the2Cultivating “global competency” in a divided world formation of world communities in various socio-political contexts.2. Prompt-based Interview: Students conducted three sets of prompt-based interviews with their global partners through which to exchange learning outcomes and detect biases and stereotypes in cross-cultural communication.3. PECE Digital Infrastructure for collaborative homework and research data curation: The digital archival platform PECE (Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography) was implemented in this course to facilitate epistemic
funded projects through the sharing of resources, ideation andguidance around mentorship program creation, and a facilitated community ofpractice.Table 1. Funded Projects and Area of FocusFunding Institute Affiliation Focus of ProjectCycle [Redacted]2019 Project #1 Enhancing Entrepreneurial Mindset for Women in Engineering Education Leadership2019 Project #2 Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) for improving mentoring skills in faculty across all departments in the College of Engineering (COE)2019 Project #3 Develop conceptual framework and perform qualitative and quantitative
Higher Edu- cation, University of Nebraska, and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation to implement an ecology of validation model at a large scale to promote student success. At UNL, Deepak mentors the AgFutures first-year living-learning community in leadership, service, and civic engagement. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Community building through technology in a biological systems engineering courseConference: American Society for Engineering EducationDivision: Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)Tags: Community-building, student-centered strategies, technologyPaper interests: Undergraduates, Graduate, Faculty
systematically. A big focus of my thinking lately is on what the “broader impacts” I wantmy research to have one day. I know it is a typical-NSF buzzword, but I do want my work to havethe long-term and compounding effects that make large-scale change.R4: I am reaching my goals for gender equity by encouraging male faculty members to viewwomxn’s struggles in STEM from a different perspective. I am supporting womxn and individualswith other gender identities to identify faculty mentors that can serve as role models in STEM,since mentoring is key for retaining students in STEM [21]. I would prioritize the examination ofmentorship in prospective faculty teaching statements to identify individuals who will support allstudents pursuing a degree in
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Examining an Equity-focused Collective Impact Project through the Lens of Alliance Members’ Prior Experiences Rebecca Zarch1 and Monica M. McGill2 1 SageFox Consulting Group 2 CSEdResearch.org 1 rzarch@sagefoxgroup.com, 2 monica@csedresearch.org Abstract Research Problem: A Collective Impact (CI) model provides a foundation for bringing together independent organizations, networks, and societies in a structured way to achieve large-scale