Zealand in their publication, “Parson’s Programming Puzzles: A fun and Effective LearningTool for First Programming Courses.” Parson and Haden describe the unique challenges faced inintroductory programming courses as students are often asked to engage with complex codingactivities [7]. The first of these challenges being that traditional computational activities weredeemed boring by students and often lead to a lack of persistence in completing activities andcourses. The second challenge pinpointed was how to isolate and disentangle the complexsyntactical thinking inherently embedded within code writing. Thus, this challenge probed thequestion of how best to separate the complex, language specific, syntax associated with acomputational language
[11, 12] introduced knowledge surveys (KS) to develop self-assessment skills instudents. Rather than requiring students to provide answers to learning prompts, KS requirestudents to rate their ability to perform the specified skill tied to a learning objective. Pre-courseor pre-unit of instruction KS allow faculty to discern prior knowledge students may bring to thecourse while serving as a cognitive “heads up” for students of learning objectives and material tocome [10]. KS completed in close proximity to an assessment event (e.g., exam, design project,or writing assignment) allow faculty to compare students’ self-assessments of learning with theirown assessments of student learning (i.e., the grade on the assignment). Such comparisons
- this data would be later used by them to write a laboratory report.The experimental group of students was exposed to an experiential learning approach for threesemesters. The curriculum design incorporated real-world scenarios, laboratory work, andinteractive experiences to enhance their understanding of biological concepts.Pre- and post-surveys were given to the undergraduates to assess student engagement. Thesesurveys captured 'students' perceptions of their learning experiences, motivation, and interest inthe subject matter. Additionally, we observed their active participation during experientiallearning sessions.1.1 Pre-Survey: A survey was administered to students enrolled in a university biology course tomeasure their motivation level
another group of through breakout rooms. presentations until all teams have presented to every team. Self-reflection to a prompt (1 min.), Breakout rooms for each grouping paired discussion (2 min.), group 1-2-4-all and PollEv to help facilitate large [7] discussion (4 min.), report out to large group report out. group (5 min.). Each student provides peer feedback An online survey tool (e.g., Google
Paper ID #43129Design Iterations as Material Culture Artifacts: A Qualitative Methodologyfor Design Education ResearchDr. Grant Fore, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Grant A. Fore, Ph.D. is the Assistant Director of Research and Evaluation in the STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute at IUPUI. As a trained anthropologist, he possesses expertise in qualitative methods and ethnographic writing. His primary research interest is in the teaching and learning of ethics in higher education through community-engaged and place-based pedagogies. ©American Society for
Engineering course combined project-based learning with variousfeedback methods, including feedback from instructors, outside experts, peer students, projecttools and artifacts, and self-assessment. The findings confirmed that incorporating feedbackwithin project-based learning effectively motivated students to complete their projects within theexpected timeframe.ChatGPT is becoming a crucial tool in education, offering a new way to enhance learning. Itassists students in improving their writing skills by providing feedback and suggestions forimprovement. Although not yet widely used in Project-Based Learning (PBL) 19,20 , ChatGPT canbe integrated into project-based learning, enhancing interactive and personalized learningexperiences. Additionally
% of all assistant engineering professors, which pales incomparison to even the tiny amount of Latine/Hispanic student representation in the field. Thereis a dire need to create parity in who is taught and who is teaching. Previous research (Bañuelos& Flores, 2020) supports the benefits of creating this parity and the current disparity's negativeeffects. While we are wary of relying on panethnic labels, as our population of TFF spans arange of identities, backgrounds, and immigration statuses, we do use the terms Latine andHispanic (not interchangeably). However, we write, analyze, and theorize with the understandingthat identities are not monolithic; rather, they are intersectional and complex. We create a dialogwith our research
scientific articles, but thanks to Professor Haifeng Wang, Google, and YouTube, I was able to digest them and put them into writing. In addition, I believe my review also allows my peer high school students to take a look at this newfound topic and the broader topic of triboelectric nanogenerators to see how we can expand this research and technology for it to become safe during clinical trials and established as a new alternative to battery-powered pacemakers, helping planet health and the health of other patients, as this alternative can help reduce health risks and surgeries associated with the traditional pacemaker. Other than that, this is a fascinating topic that can be taught in a high school health sciences
therealities around them to then act on this reality as intelligent subjects. As Charmaz (2014) writes,it is “situated in conceptions of justice and injustice”. For example, in discussing the role ofconscientizão in revolutionary leadership, Friere writes (p.67): The revolutionary leaders must realize that their own conviction of the necessity for struggle (an indispensable dimension of revolutionary wisdom) was not given to them by anyone else—if it is authentic. This conviction cannot be packaged and sold; it is reached, rather, by means of a totality of reflection and action. Only the leaders’ own involvement in reality, within an historical situation, led them to criticize this situation and wish to change it.Here
dynamics, enhancing understanding through sharedideas. Martin-Gutierrez et al. [12] implemented augmented reality in an electrical engineeringcourse. However, the study primarily evaluated immediate student feedback, not exploringlong-term educational impact. Hadfield-Menell et al. [14] focused on theoretical aspects oncooperative inverse reinforcement learning without real-world validation. Vliet et al. [15]investigated the impact of flipped-class pedagogy on student motivation and learning strategies,finding enhanced critical thinking and peer learning. However, these effects were not long-lasting,indicating a need for repeated use.Jo et al. [16] observed increased student participation and interest in flipped classrooms withgaming elements
soldering equipment. • A full week was given to complete each laboratory assignment. • At least 20 staffed laboratory hours were provided each week (split between teaching assistants and peer mentors).For each laboratory assignment, the desired outcome is first and foremost to create something.Therefore, less emphasis was placed on the laboratory report than on the building process. Thelaboratory report contained mostly photographs and brief explanations of the various steps in theproject. Additionally, students were asked to reflect on the entire experience for each assignment,which allowed students to exercise some metacognition, and also gave the course staff an idea ofwhere the main challenges lie. Finally, for each assignment
. Belonging encompasses a subjective assessment of astudent's sense of acceptance, value, inclusion, and encouragement from both peers andinstructors within the academic environment. It also entails feeling integral to the class andrecognizing one's importance in the educational community [13]. Studies indicate that studentswho persist in STEM majors tend to experience a heightened sense of belonging compared totheir counterparts who transition out of STEM fields. However, individuals fromunderrepresented groups, including females, are less likely to perceive a strong sense ofbelonging. This disparity is, in part, attributed to the numerical underrepresentation of womenboth in educational settings and within the industrial landscape [13-18]. This
, now commands on the order of two or three class periods in introductorycircuits courses. In today’s circumstances, it would more often than not be a disservice to ourundergraduate students to demand they write machine code to access registers, learn to designwith tube amplifiers, wind all their own inductors, or reinvent the wheel for common operationsin scikit-learn, pandas, or OpenCV. All these skills are still relevant for certain professional rolesor applications, but the modern undergraduate curriculum prioritizes learning how to learn andbecoming a resourceful problem-solver over accumulating the maximal set of discrete technicalskills. If the latter were the case, becoming an electronics engineer would entail little more thanmemorizing
potential vocational pathways, includinggovernment, academia, and industry.The NRT program at our university includes educational and experiential components. Thesecomponents are field experiences, policy experiences at the state capital, applied course work,interdisciplinary research, faculty and peer mentoring, professional development, and periodicassessment of these components. The NRT organized three courses: a one-credit hour cross-listed course called Integrated FEW Systems, a two-credit hour cross-listed NRT Capstone, and a0-credit NRT Seminar. In the Integrated FEW Systems course, students were introduced tosystems thinking, with specific application to the FEW nexus in South West Kansas. The NRTCapstone is a project-based course that
Paper ID #44329Appreciative Inquiry as an Intervention for Equity-Centered EngineeringEducation Research and PraxisAnn Shivers-McNair, University of Arizona Ann Shivers-McNair is associate professor and director of professional and technical writing in the Department of English and affiliated faculty in the School of Information at the University of Arizona, on the lands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui.Gimantha N. Perera, North Carolina State University Gimantha Perera is a Sri Lankan born researcher and educator from NC State University. He was inspired to be an engineer by his maternal grandfather Anil, who
Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She received her B.Eng. and Ph.D in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the Polytechnic School, University of Patras, Greece. She has extensive experience on building data management and database solutions for large-scale systems in collaboration with industrial and governmental agencies, and academic partners. She has published her work in peer-reviewed international conferences and journals. Her current research interests include data management, data valuation and AI and engineering education. Her teaching/mentoring activities focus on developing and offering classes in project-based learning environments as well as, advising and
Academic Integrity ViolationsThe vast majority of actionable academic integrity reports can be grouped into two categories; (1)using a cell phone or smartwatch during an exam or (2) bringing course material into the lab eitherin the form of a cheat sheet or written on their body. However, we have also seen other studentbehaviors develop which have required us to institute new exam policies. Restrictions regardingwhen students could begin writing on their scratch paper is a good example of a policy changethat occurred in response to student behavior. Until recently, students were allowed to write ontheir scratch paper as soon as they were seated in the lab, a policy based on the assumption thatonce in the lab any information that was written on the
academia. On-the-jobinformation needs move at a more rapid pace and employers provide less specific guidance thanacademic instructors, making it difficult for new university graduates to solve informationproblems [1]. For engineering and technology students, workplace information use involves lessof the sources that are traditionally emphasized in academia (e.g., peer reviewed journal articles,books) and more of the resources heavily relied upon in industry, such as technical standards [2],[3], [4], [5]. Additionally, workplace projects require a high degree of interpersonal informationgathering and communication with colleagues [6], [7].Recent research from American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) indicatesthat employers view
interested in partnering with EngineeringMomentum to offer summer internships to both university students and early-stage communitycollege students interested in engineering.Engineering Momentum valued a collaboration with SPUR—benefitting from its expertise andtrack record of opening new pathways for qualified interns—which would allow communitycollege students to enter the program. Engineering Momentum placed 20 community collegestudents in 2023 through SPUR. Another 10 students interned at the University of ColoradoDenver, and five community college students interned at Lockheed Martin.Engineering Momentum research internships included mentoring from the professor, graduatestudents, and peer-to-peer collaboration between two- and four-year
, whereas a ques-tionnaire for critical thinking was utilized to identify the critical thinking skills of thestudents. Another crucial factor assisting students to be engaged during the learning andimproving their skills is a challenging feature of the course assignments. Especially inhigher education, challenge-based learning (CBL) has been highlighted and definedas a multidisciplinary teaching and learning approach that encourages students toleverage technology to solve real-world problems. So, it has some common featuressuch as being collaborative and hands-on with peers, teachers, and experts in theircommunities. Problem-based learning (PBL) is a variation of CBL with less opengeneral problems and students don’t need to formulate the
highlighted where these dynamics have influenced mentoring in either apositive or negative manner. These include experiences related to transitions from being a studentto a peer, the mentee’s feeling of powerlessness vs. having agency, or the mentor’s limited abilityto assist the mentee. Grace shared an example: “We had been considering some ideas anyway, and this was a w- a way to formalize that. Um, and then I had to choose other people to be on the team, both from my institution and not in my institution at various stages of my career. And I thought very strategically about, like, "Who do I wanna include on this team that, you know, might write my tenure letter someday?" So, like, I wanna kinda be nice to, to
this longer-term workis to determine whether students who learn Python as their first programming language are betterprepared to adapt to new languages and programming platforms.IntroductionProgramming is an important professional skill for most engineers. An introductoryprogramming course is part of the first or second-year curricula in most engineering programs.However, it comes with many difficult challenges for both students and faculty [1,2,3,4]. Therole played by the instructor in the development of these skills cannot be totally ignored but isfound to be minimal [5]. Students usually learn by trial and error using tutorials, homework,textbook examples, peer learning, and web-based demonstrations [6]. Many studies [7,8] haveindicated
customcontrol panel connected to the PLC, which controls the conveyor and robot actions. The resultsshow the feasibility of the presented multi robot automation line controlled by a PLC that allowshuman machine interaction to enable manual quality inspection during production. This paperdetails a student project developed in the advanced programmable logic controllers class. It ispart of the master program in mechatronics. Students work in groups in a creative setting, wherethey learn to integrate various automation technologies and learn to write scientific publications.Keywords: Multi-robot; Industrial robots; Programmable Logic Controller (PLC);Communication, Quality Inspection, human ma- chine interface (HMI)IntroductionIn industrial automation
capstonedesign course is a single-semester course offered to seniors who have taken courses on design [1]and other required engineering courses that involve background and preparation for writing andpresenting technical content to technical audiences. The students at this stage have not receivedstandardized formal training on effective communication strategies for persuading the public orpeople with non-engineering backgrounds. Engineers communicate in numerous genres, formats, and modes to convey vital information to diverse types of
(CUREs), NSF-funded research experiences forundergraduates (REUs), and extracurricular/personal research experiences. However, amidstvariable circumstances, one of the true defining characteristics of these experiences is theavailability of not only the faculty but of other mentor types as well. For example, anundergraduate researcher in a mentoring triad experience may go to the graduate student mentorinstead of the faculty with questions or as their primary mentor. This could be due to the facultynot having enough time outside of a mandated meeting or the undergraduate researcher may feela perceived power difference and would rather opt for a more peer-to-peer interaction. From astudy by Sobieraj and Kajfez utilizing qualitative techniques to
tomaintain an electronic diary [33] where they will be periodically asked to write about their classexperiences, college peer relationships, and future ambitions. At each point when data arecollected, we will use word embedding models and each student’s diary entries to measure theextent to which the student uses engineering to discursively frame their experiences,relationships, and future ambitions.Finally, we will have two measures of academic performance: the mean grade (on a 0-100 scale)across all letter-grade courses for the student during the semester in which the measurementtakes place and the mean grade (again on a 0-100 scale) across all ECE courses taken by thestudent up to that point in time.Quantitative analysisMultivariate longitudinal
machine learning and cognitive research). My background is in Industrial Engineering (B.Sc. at the Sharif University of Technology and ”Gold medal” of Industrial Engineering Olympiad (Iran-2021- the highest-level prize in Iran)). Now I am working as a researcher in the Erasmus project, which is funded by European Unions (1M $ European Union & 7 Iranian Universities) which focus on TEL and students as well as professors’ adoption of technology(modern Education technology). Moreover, I cooperated with Dr. Taheri to write the ”R application in Engineering statistics” (an attachment of his new book ”Engineering probability and statistics.”)Dr. Jason Morphew, Purdue University Jason W. Morphew is an Assistant Professor
2: Phase 2 milestone scheduleMilestone Description of the Deliverable1: Problem A typed mini-report that describes the problem statement in paragraph form. The first fewStatement sentences should describe why the work is being done. The final sentence should begin with “Design a…” and include discussion of constraints and criteria necessary for achieving success. Be very mindful about writing this statement in your own words. Additionally, include lists of the “should criteria” and “must criteria”. Also include a list of constraints.2: Generate A typed mini-report with hand sketches describing multiple solutions, including the materialsConcepts for fabrication
novel electronic and optical materials, with a particular emphasis on rare earth dopants in semiconductors and laser produced single crystals in glass. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and has been awarded several patents for his work.Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University Himanshu Jain is the T.L. Diamond Distinguished Chair Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Director of Institute for Functional Materials and Devices at Lehigh University. He helped establish and served as the director of NSF’s International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass, which pioneered globalization of glass research and education, and led to multiple international
role of peer networks and student-led initiatives in promoting sustainabilitywithin engineering education. By leveraging student changemakers’ enthusiasm and innovativethinking, we can collectively work toward a more sustainable future in engineering educationand practice.Keywords: Sustainable Engineering, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), StudentChangemakersIntroduction and BackgroundOver recent years, numerous initiatives, funding opportunities, and research collaborations havebeen working to advance engineering education’s focus on a sustainable future. This focus onsustainability was initially catalyzed in 1987 by the United Nations Brundtland Report, whichcalled upon humanity to pursue sustainable development, and was furthered and