Paper ID #38560A Process for Systematically Collecting Plan of Study Data forCurricular AnalyticsDr. David Reeping, University of Cincinnati Dr. David Reeping is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Computing Education at the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech and was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He received his B.S. in Engineering Education with a Mathematics minor from Ohio Northern University. His main research interests include transfer student information asymmetries, threshold concepts, curricular complexity, and
Paper ID #39646Exploring Differences in Planning between Students with and withoutPrior Experience in ProgrammingRyan Parsons, Western Washington University Ryan Parsons has taught introductory Computer Science for 6 years at Whatcom Community College. He served as the Program Coordinator for the newly created Software Development program there. He has been working on his Master’s in Computer Science at Western Washington University, where his research focus has been on Computer Science Education.Qiang Hao, Western Washington University Associate professor of computer scienceDr. Lu Ding, University of South Alabama Dr. Lu
Paper ID #36791Board 334: Master’s Individual Development Plans as an Essential Tool inWorkforce DevelopmentDeborah Silver, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Deborah Silver is the Executive Director of the Professional Science Master’s Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This program offers the Master of Business & Science (MBS) degree which is a combination of a science master’s with courses in business and includes many engineering disciplines. She is also a full professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers. From 2008-2010 she served as Associate Dean of
Paper ID #38001Board 309: Impact of RET Summer Program Designs on Teachers’Technological-Content Knowledge and Lesson Plan Development OutcomesDr. Shenghua Zha, University of South AlabamaDr. Na Gong, University of South Alabama Dr. Na Gong is currently Warren Nicholson Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of South Alabama. She received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the State University of New York,Erin Bosarge, University of South Alabama ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Impact of RET Summer Program Designs on
Paper ID #37143Work-in-Progress: Developing a Research Plan for a RetrospectiveAnalysis of the Effect of Bridging Courses on Student Success inGraduate StudiesDr. Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University, Raleigh Dr. Matthew Cooper is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University where he teaches courses in Senior Design, Unit Opera- tions, Transport Phenomena, Material & Energy Balances and Mathematical/Computational Methods. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching, process safety education and conceptual learning
analytics related modules are incorporated intheir current teaching materials. Through the analysis, we seek to explore how high schooleducation in Arkansas is preparing students for next-generation workforce needs in analytics. Inaddition, we perform a descriptive statistics analysis of the learning modules created by theparticipating teachers through the AR-DATA program. We summarize the standards the teachershave used for their modules as well as the common ideas and topics of the learning modules.Through connecting the modules in different subject areas, we also analyze the possibilities ofcollaborative lesson plans that teachers in different fields can coordinate and teach together.Finally, we examine related topics in the post-secondary
implementable lesson/exercise, as well as dissemination of newlyacquired knowledge at annual teacher summit and/or online presentation. The participants alsosummarized their studies and shared their posters with other research students and teachers fromdifferent RET/REU programs. The expected outcomes of this program would be the transferringof acquired practical knowledge and skills to excite, empower, and educate students through newclass/lab activities. Funding from industry allowed additional equipment for schools and havingmore teacher participants in this program. The three-year program achieved most of the planned objectives. The program recruitedand trained a diverse cohort of participants, most teachers managed to grow their
of three-courses and anassociated Qualification Plan. The PFE courses serve as a means to inform and involve studentsin departmental and program activities. Having a sequence of courses that all EE students takeprovides an effective mechanism for getting the word out about innovations to changedepartmental culture to be more student oriented.The PFE course sequence aims to support the development of students’ identities as professionalengineers and to motivate them to persist in their degrees. Originally taken as optional electives,the PFE I–III courses became a required part of the core curriculum for EE majors Broadly, thePFE course sequence teaches ethical engineering principles, identifies areas of careeropportunities for students, and
affiliation).Before the three-day convening, teams submitted a draft version of their plans to address thechanges proposed by ABET as well as the results of an institutional inventory of their DEIresources. Throughout the workshop, teams further developed their plans and gave feedback toand received feedback from at least two other teams.In this paper (written from the perspective of the external evaluators, with contributions frommembers of the planning team), we identify common issues across institutions related to theimplementation and assessment of DEI that might be navigated collaboratively based ondocument analysis and participants’ survey responses. Specifically, we discuss the challengesand supports commonly expressed by event participants
graduate degrees from Virginia Tech, including an M.S. Civil Infrastructure Engineering, M.S. LFS Entomology, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
)represent a unique yet understudied student group that comprises substantial numbers of thosehistorically underrepresented and underserved in STEM (i.e., due to race, ethnicity, gender, socialclass, ability, orientation, etc.). The individual diversity reflected by SVSMs, as well as theirtechnical interests, leadership and teamwork skills, maturity, life experience, and self-discipline,highlight SVSM as promising candidates for helping the field of engineering meet 21st centurySTEM workforce diversity goals [1,2].Project Goals and Work PlanThe overall goal of this NSF CAREER project is to advance full participation of SVSM within higherengineering education and the engineering workforce via two complementary work streams: aresearch plan and an
increase in the number of applications in the second year of theprogram with teacher referral and broader dissemination.We recruited ten faculty members in the College of Engineering to participate as facultymentors. They also recruited one of their graduate students to participate as student mentors.Two faculty mentors were replaced in the second year of the program due to their unavailability.An Industry Advisory Board (IAB) was formed for the program to provide guidance andfeedback on the program activities, especially those related to industry engagement, to ensure theteachers are well-informed of the workforce needs in the data analytics space, which can bereflected in their lesson plan development.Pre-Program ActivitiesWe designed a two-week
RESOURCE EXCHANGE Rachelle Pedersen Ashley Kersey LESSON DESCRIPTION Alex Sobotka Dr. Ali MostafaviOnly one in twenty mega-projects in engineering will meet both their authorized cost andschedule; the reasoning behind this requires an understanding of the interconnected conceptswithin project management (e.g., risks, change orders, project complexity).To know what shouldbe considered during the Front-End-Planning (FEP) phases of a project, students needexperiences with the various reasons why these mega-projects fail. This low stakes, low resourceactivity
studentswith the necessary cybersecurity knowledge to understand and analyze cyber securityvulnerabilities and threats to assess the likelihood of an attack as well as begin to understand theimpact of such an attack.The first section of the course was designed to provide a general understanding of cyber riskmanagement. In this course this starts with the DODI 8500.01 (“Cybersecurity”) definition: “Cybersecurity Risk Management. Managing cybersecurity risks is a complex, multifaceted undertaking that requires the involvement of the entire organization, from senior leaders planning and managing DoD operations, to individuals developing, implementing, and operating the IT supporting those operations. Cybersecurity risk management is a subset of
Resolution 946-22 [3]. While five years seems like ample time to make this transition, itis not. The timeline shows that the time between the announcement of the decision to thesubmission of every academic department’s plan was only sixteen months. This paper chroniclesthe conversion to semester effort during this time period for the architectural engineering(ARCE) program and suggests a formalized methodology that other programs and institutionscan use if found in the same situation. The paper attempts to focus on the process and thechallenges of this conversion more than the specific details of the ARCE curriculum. January 27, 2023 Each academic department submits its Academic Program Plan to the appropriate
. Table 1: Course Schedule Topics Week Workplace fundamentals and applications 1& 2 Teamwork skills: Management vs leadership 3 Project management skills: Overview of planning – How to do planning 4 Project management skills: critical thinking for design of experiments and 5 project management techniques – Agile Project Management Apply project management process: initiating, planning, executing, 6, 7 & 8 monitoring, and controlling, closing – Scrum, Backlog Refinement, and
years of experience working on the NE project. Lack of time to plan andimplement NE was cited as the topmost challenge for teachers. Inability to figure out books andproblems, pressure from administration, difficulties in lesson planning, group dynamics amongstudents, and safety of students while handling materials were some of the other concernsmentioned in the evaluation.Similar findings were uncovered in a survey of 70 elementary and middle school teachers doneby Coppola, S.M., Madariaga, L. and Schnedeker, M. [7]. They found that lack of time, access tomaterials and resources, and unfamiliarity with the content were major barriers that preventintegrating engineering into the classroom.Research MethodologyA list of potential barriers for NE
emphasis on the industrial control components required to maintain facility operations. Tour concludes with a discussion of the NOVA Data Center Operations program. NOVA Fab Lab Tour Tour of the digital fabrication lab and NOVA’s engineering In-person, 4 hours technology classrooms. Facilitators introduced NOVA’s degree programs formally, then conducted a group discussion of how to better reach students with opportunities. Plan of Action Participants create a plan explaining what they learned from Asynchronous, 2 hours the externship, how they will
across all fourassignments, students were predominantly engaged in the Evaluating strategy during self-evaluation, whereas they predominantly engaged in Planning and Monitoring in the reflectionactivity. Student engagement was at the low and medium levels of the three metacognitivestrategies.Keywords: junior, reflection, metacognition, qualitativeI. IntroductionLifelong learning is one of the desired employability skills in today's job market. Forinstance, consider the technologies with which engineering work. The continuous evolutionof technology that results in the replacement of existing devices with new devices poses newchallenges and opportunities for engineers [1]. Working with new devices requires newknowledge and skillsets. To keep pace
stated objectives. The open house led to the most scalable model that UMLhas now adopted with several school districts. The other programs will continue if grant fundscontinue to be sourced. The success of these programs in meeting their objectives demonstrateshow vital it is to jointly consider three factors: Results (learner outcomes), Reproducibility(adequacy of resources), and Representation (diverse and inclusive staffing and studentparticipation). The program partnership rubric was developed to help partnerships plan andevaluate their programs based on these three factors. How the rubric was used to plan these pilotprograms and determine how and/or whether to run them again is explained.Introduction In the United States, students in
led by experienced NSF ATE principal investigators from various technologydisciplines. Topics covered during the workshop included components of an NSF ATE proposal;results of prior support; rationale; goals, objectives, activities, and deliverables; one-pagesummaries; the review process; mock panels; timelines; management plans; budgets and budgetjustifications; evaluation plans; sustainability plans; dissemination plans; the Research.govsubmission platform; and resources such as ATE Central and Mentor-Connect. Participants weregiven assignments each night such as preparation for the mock panel reviews. Following the2022 cohort, the leadership team and mentors decided to keep the workshop virtual for theremainder of the grant period to
3D models allow users to interact with their objects by rotating and viewingthem from various angles. The research team hypothesized that by quickly seeing the 3Drepresentation of their 2D drawings, students will gain a deeper understanding of theinterconnections between different design components. and that understanding can improvespatial visualization skills.To illustrate the 2D to 3D conversion, consider the 2D structural plans in Figures 4 (a) and (b).These plans provide essential information about the design and structure of a building, but theycan be challenging to visualize in 3D for students. By clicking the 3D conversion button (Figure4 (c)), the SVA will generate a 3D plan as shown in Figure 4 (d).SVA DebuggingTo ensure the
conductingsimulation analyses of completion rates, this aspect of Curricular Complexity is generally toounderdeveloped to be used as a theoretical framework on its own – despite some work by Waller[10], who used the concept of grade anomaly instead of course pass-rate as a proxy forinstructional complexity.Much more promising, however, is the idea of structural complexity. This construct has theresearcher examine the curriculum itself by using network analysis to measure sequencing andinterconnectedness in a plan of study. Two intrinsic measurements are associated with eachcourse in Curricular Analytics: (1) the blocking factor, which counts how many courses areinaccessible to a student upon failing a specific course, and (2) the delay factor, the
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1990 and 1999, respectively. He taught at The United States Military Academy during his 25 year military career. After retiring form the military he has taught at the University of Texas at Tyler and The Citadel, where he was the Dean of Engineering for 10 years.Dr. Nahid Vesali, P.E., Pennsylvania State University Dr. Nahid Vesali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Management (ELPM) in the School of Engineering (SOE) at The Citadel. She joined the program in Aug 2020. She teaches project management, technical planning ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 From Need Assessment to Accreditation
participants. Our poster will present anoverview of our: 1) conceptual model informing our data collection; 2) workshop developmentand implementation; and 3) instrument revision and piloting.Project OverviewThis project is a multi-case study with three phases in the research plan and two phases in theeducation plan. The project is guided by a conceptual model developed during Years 1 and 2 ofthe project. Phase 1 of the research plan is a single case study, which involves data collection atthe PI’s home institution, which is the current stage of the project. Part 1 of the education planrelated to developing and implementing Situational Judgment Inventories is currently underwayas well.Before we began collecting data, we reflected on the research
librarians. During the project, fellowscompleted 24 hours of design thinking instruction, practiced teaching at digital fabricationsummer camps for elementary and middle school youth, and created a lesson plan that integrateddesign thinking into their subject area. This paper investigates the extent to which teacherconfidence & ability in integration of design thinking principles into classroom instruction wereimproved by participation in the PL fellowship.Project Rationale. The notion of “making” has shown promise as an active, project-basedlearning intervention[2]. Integrating digital fabrication into classroom instruction has beenshown to improve student attitudes toward the STEM disciplines and increase career interest [3]-[5]. However
tool, a set ofsurvey questions were given to those students whose schedules have been made using theadvising tool. The collected survey data has been analyzed statistically to determine the tool'sefficacy from students’ perspectives. The analyzed data indicate that the students were overallsatisfied and had positive attitudes towards different aspects of the tool.MotivationIn any major, preparing an effective and error-free course plan for undergraduate students eachsemester is crucial for their timely graduation. However, various constraints may arisethroughout the student’s four-year program, which can cause uncertainties in their graduationtiming. Students also often want a clear picture of their projected graduation date, including
questions during projects 4 . Thestudents enjoy project-based learning classes, and it increases motivation to complete theassignment among students 5 . Though there are some set backs, as with any type of teachingapproach, researchers have addressed the various challenges in applying project-based learningwhen it comes to complex projects that requires multi-team collaboration and interactions 6 . Wetook into account these various issue in the process of developing our project.Tools DevelopmentIn general, implementing a systems engineering project requires using project management toolsto allow teams to plan, execute and monitor the project through its life-cycle. People haveadopted different methods to manage projects, including waterfall and
one year before COVID and the physics CCT was active forroughly six months prior to COVID. Timing relative to COVID is mentioned because themovement to online learning impacted the trajectories and schedules for teaching change efforts.Both of these CCTs started their work by designing a change plan that outlined the issues theywanted to target and then started to work towards those goals by making changes in the targetedintroductory courses. The computer science department joined the project more recently, and itsCCT is still working to design its plan for change.Teaching change efforts spearheaded by the math and physics CCTs primarily focused on thestructure of recitations. Math focused on redesigning calculus recitations to an active
-track day are full of student focused activities, topics and needs madeavailable to all students, both locally and abroad. In fact, each session of the student-track dayinvolved participatory student input throughout the planning process. Some of the topicsdiscussed in the 2022 student-track conference proceedings were a sense of belonging; studentsmental health; full disclosure: speaking your truth student panel; inclusive student leadership andresilience. The student day provided students a platform to discuss equity and inclusion issuesthat impact them every day and develop and/or increase their skills related to equity andinclusion contexts. The day also helped them increase their awareness, recognize the benefits ofa diverse organization