project in a team at the USU campus.Depending on the selected research project, REU participants acquire competency indeveloping and justifying research ideas, formulating research hypotheses, implementing aresearch plan; analyzing collected data; communicating and disseminating research results;and developing strong technical, professional, communication, and team-working skills. EachREU participant was provided with an office cubicle in a graduate student room to facilitatedaily interactions between REU participants and the graduate student and faculty mentors.Each office cubicle was equipped with a desktop computer with Internet and printerconnections. In addition, all REU participants had access to a multi-purpose room where theycould discuss
trauma-informed frameworks of care in their approach to supporting graduate students?Preliminary Results from Phase 1Initial plans for Phase 1 were based on a sequential mixed-methods design, starting withcollecting data from a nationally representative sample of engineering GPDs and following withsemi-structured interviews of a subset of engineering GPDs selected as a result of their surveyresponses. To that end, we began adapting the Supporting Graduate Student Mental Health andWell-Being Survey instrument [1] to focus on both institutional and program-specific resources.In addition, we planned to augment the survey with open-ended questions about GPD roles andresponsibilities and how integrating frameworks of care could occur across
thecapability for explaining complex concepts or subjects, creation of code, fixing errors in existingcode, mathematical problem solving, the ideation and planning of laboratory experiences, amongothers [6]. On the other hand, the importance in engineering of creativity, critical thinking, andthe ability to solve complex problems, presents an opportunity to maximize the potential of thistool and explore new ways to use it.Impact on Assignments The emergence of ChatGPT introduces several profound implications for engineeringeducation, reshaping traditional teaching methods and prompting a reevaluation of assessmentstrategies. Traditional assignments that have always been done in engineering education, such asstandardized tests and multi-answer
scaleoutreach events. One such event was the first annual A+E Day for mechanical engineering (ME)students hosted for the first time in the fall of 2023 for the ME 110: Introduction to MechanicalEngineering class. The event was such a success that there are plans for a second A+E Day forME in the spring of 2024 semester. The “day” consisted of a three-hour lab block split into two90-minute sections that hosted 65 students across five modules – glassblowing, welding,blacksmithing (forging), casting, and glazing. The overarching theme of the kinesthetic moduleswas thermodynamics in materials processing, and the students all received a lecture on the subjectprior to attending lab. The verbal feedback from the students was positive, the ME students werealso
asked and answered, responses to feedback questions on the topic, and perceptions ofsuccess of the interaction. Teaching staff were explicitly asked whether students hadmisconceptions about what their “real” problem was.These data allow us to then plan targeted interviews and observations towards interactionsidentified by TAs and students as unsuccessful to develop a more complete view of office hourinteractions at this level.MyDigitalHand collects two main forms of data: automatically collected data related to the timingor context of the interaction, and after-interaction feedback data requested from both students andTAs on how a session went in their opinion. Automatically collected data consists of time stampsas well as student-provided
comprises the landing page, layeroverview page, and common elements like logo and navigation bar. The layer overview pagepresents four modules - the animation module, TCP layer, transport layer, and data link layer.The animation module features an interactive 3D model and an animation explanationsubpage. The other three modules contain the knowledge of each layer on the correspondingsubpages.3 MethodsSurvey Plan and EvaluationThe testing verifies the effectiveness of our design. The test plan includes internal testing andexternal testing. The internal testing focuses on the functionality of 3D animation andincorporates the 3D animation with the webpage. The external testing focuses on the userexperience of the website. Appendix C summarizes the
thisanalysis is presented here along with representative student comments, and discussed. The fulllist of survey responses and coding notes can be made available to any interested party.3. Results3.1 Material DevelopmentThe early planning stages of the project included rethinking the traditional textbook format, andopting instead to produce annotated and comprehensive slides designed to function as both studyaids for students and instructional tools for educators. The foundational concepts of engineeringeconomics were systematically organized into twelve distinct chapters, each represented by aPowerPoint slide deck. The size of these decks varied, spanning from 20 to 40 slides, with anaverage of 30 slides and a median of 29. Each deck included a title
partnership that could lead to more innovation. Socially-literate and engagedengineers can better translate community concerns into practical action. When trust is builtbetween practitioners and community stakeholders, it can lead to unexpected pathways forintellectual and practical exploration.Finally, a vector that we can plan for but not control fully is the implications on communities.However, we obviously see benefits as were articulated above – more culturally andcontextually-appropriate interventions, better system design – as well as the capacity to developmore asset-based approaches to work in communities. So often community engagement isframed as a way of repairing deficits. By leveraging community voice in full participation withall
?MethodsParticipant recruitment and context: As part of the external evaluation plan for the project, weinvited instructors of two associated large-scale (>2000 students per semester) required first-yearengineering courses to talk with us at two different points in the academic year (mid-year, andend-of-year) about their experiences of overseeing and improving student teaming in the courses.At this university, where engineering features prominently in the university’s identity andinternational reputation, students admitted to be undergraduates are not required to choose anundergraduate major as part of their application. Instead, they indicate interest in being admittedto the engineering college, and are administratively labeled as “first year engineering
influences from socializers mayinteract with students’ motivation to persist in STEM. Alternatively, future work couldexperiment with facilitating these interactions to improve motivation. Further empirical insightsthat unpack the dynamics of different socializer-interactions can build a deeper understanding ofthe impact of socializers to inform research and practice.References[1] J. P. Martin, D. R. Simmons, and S. L. Yu, “The Role of Social Capital in the Experiences of Hispanic Women Engineering Majors,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 227–243, 2013, doi: 10.1002/jee.20010.[2] National Science Foundation, “U.S. National Science Foundation 2022-2026 Strategic Plan,” 2022.[3] E. McGee and L. Bentley, “The equity ethic
have “an ability to function effectively on a team whose memberstogether provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals,plan tasks, and meet objectives.” Thus, all programs are clearly instructed to include, and assess,teamwork.While it is easy to put students in teams, it is much more difficult to assess individualperformance and ensure that all contribute as desired. The most common course to require teamsis senior design. ABET again mandates this course saying that the curriculum must contain “aculminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineeringstandards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired inearlier course work [1].”As
produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. 3. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences. 4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives. 6. an ability to develop and conduct
stripping profiles.This will imply that there is a path from the bottom composition to the distillation composition viathe stages in the middle-section. Figure 4 shows interactive plots from this example.Summary and Future WorkWe are currently introducing these notebooks in our Process Design with Aspen Plus course. Basedon student feedback we will refine these notebooks and our code-base. We will require our studentsto use this code-base to design distillation columns before they start designing columns in AspenPlus. We plan to host these notebooks on a remote server so that it is accessible online. The codeis freely available for download via this Github link. The code base has been written such that itis easy to create new Jupyter notebooks. It
other two points were omitted from Table 1. The first was “Courses should becarefully planned,” and in their paper, this included subcategories of preparation of the syllabus,ordering textbooks, and communicating dates for exams. These items could be included in point2, about communications, and that is where we have aligned our faculty’s comments. In abroader sense, careful planning would also involve deciding on learning objectives, the depth inwhich to cover topics, deciding on the sequencing, determining effective pedagogy for each classand so on, but these probably are beyond ethical requirements. The other point not included inTable 1 was “Faculty members must not come to class intoxicated with alcohol or drugs.” Weare sure that this is
opportunities for student-led change by encouraging students to identify areas that need improvement and then conductresearch and develop plans for improvements. This involves defining specific and measurablegoals that align with students’ perspectives. The project underscores collaboration, fosteringco-creation, and student- led leadership, diverging from other top-down methods by elevatingstudents’ voices and promoting student agency by positioning students as leaders, rather thanrecipients, of institutional change projects.Against this backdrop, this paper asks: how might storytelling methods, that shift the role ofstudents from research participant to research collaborator, provide insight into students.experiences?Storytelling stands at the
incorporate input, process, output, and feedback. An example lesson plan alignedwith Georgia standard MS-ENGR-TS-3 is given . The lesson is found here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YdD24XDFRItQPckJDSn0L0l7OH6AiWL-aRIats-JA9U/editHer lessons depict the richness of the GauGAN’s NVIDIA Canvas where by it can be used tosketch and customize an image. The customizing aspect is very important because each studentcan highlight their input and make it visible to others. This aspect is critical in engineering andtechnology because visualization adds a sense of the design details. Students seem to benefit byinteractive environment where they can modify or manipulate variable to attain their interestedgoals. This is more engaging than only viewing
practices: An ecological perspective," Scaling up assessment for learning in higher education, pp. 129-143, 2017.10. A. N. Kluger and A. DeNisi, "The effects of feedback interventions on performance: a historical review, a meta-analysis, and a preliminary feedback intervention theory," Psychological bulletin, vol. 119, no. 2, p. 254, 1996.11. A. N. Kluger and A. DeNisi, "Feedback interventions: Toward the understanding of a double- edged sword," Curr. Dir. Psychol., vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 67-72, 1998.12. V. J. Shute, "Focus on formative feedback," Review of educational research, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 153-189, 2008.13. P. C. Schlechty, Working on the Work: An Action Plan for Teachers, Principals, and Superintendents. The Jossey-Bass
is all part of this understanding that students must attain. This is why visualaids seemed to be a necessity to enhance learning in the classroom.MethodsInitially, a storyboard was created that expressed a simple but comprehensive storyline thatexplained the role of dislocations in the process of strain hardening. The purpose of this storyboardwas to organize the effort of animating and to make sure students can easily follow the mainstoryline and that it is closely linked to the content covered in the lectures. In addition to this, the Figure 1: Plan for the current and future of the projectstoryboard outlines the figures and animations that will need to be developed such that the projectis done comprehensively
faculty and second in the number ofundergraduate engineering degrees granted to Hispanics (American Society for EngineeringEducation, 2023). Table 1 delineates the undergraduate engineering enrollment across variousacademic programs using data provided by the UPRM Office of Planning, Research, andInstitutional Improvement.Table 1. Summary of undergraduate engineering enrollment for the first semester of 2023-2024 Academic Program Total Female Male Civil Engineering 629 181 448 Electrical Engineering 586 69 516 Industrial Engineering 621
exploratory mixed-methods study on implementing assignment choice as a meansof students planning a path to meet the course learning objectives 7,8 . The choices in thecurriculum will be fully integrated into Canvas, the Learning Management System, and the coursegrade calculator available to students. A customized course roadmap will be used for the studentsto visually plan their path through the assignments and to their individual path to success. Thisapproach applies to students’ own motivation, whether intrinsic or extrinsic.BackgroundOur study delves into a comprehensive analysis of data spanning from 2012 to the present day.The initial five years of our dataset revealed a persistent trend within our CS-1 courses,characterized by grade
Texas A&M University. After producing an undergraduate thesis under the university’s English department in 2023, he joined the LIVE Lab to continue learning effective research methods. After publishing more papers and graduating in the upcoming spring, he plans on entering a doctorate program in clinical psychology to conclude academic pursuits as a licensed psychiatrist.Rose Myers, Texas A&M University Rose Myers is an engineering student with the LIVE Lab at Texas A&M University.Kailee Meek, Texas A&M University Kailee Meek is an undergraduate research student studying Biomedical Sciences (B.S.) and minoring in Psychology at Texas A&M University. She is working towards acceptance into medical school
informed by the coaches’ understanding of the tournament judging process,but they stressed that they wanted the children to make their own decisions about what toinclude. This was reflected in how Claire facilitated the team’s curation of a product notebookfor tournament judging in the final weeks of the competition season. Following hersuggestion, each team member sat down with Kevin (a team leader and a strong writer) todiscuss what information was important to share with the judges. Kevin created a colourfulproduct notebook in Microsoft Word™, typing up his team members’ contributions based ontheir verbal conversations and process notebook entries. He also included robot photos, codescreenshots, drawings, a robot game mission strategy planning
Paper ID #42714Equitable Attainment of Engineering Degrees: A Tri-University Study andImprovement EffortKian G. Alavy, The University of Arizona Kian Alavy is Director of Strategic Planning and Initiatives for the Division of Undergraduate Education and a doctoral student in Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Kian is interested in the history and evolution of undergraduate education offices at research universities in the United States, particularly their current nationwide organization around high-impact practices (HIPs). He earned his MA in Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of
; they are responsible for planning, researching, and completing their projects. This canhelp them develop important self-directed learning skills.A spirometer serves as a vital medical tool for measuring lung function, essential in the diagnosisand monitoring of conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma.However, conventional volumetric spirometers face a limitation—they lack a systematic approachto tracking and controlling progress in lung strength. This is particularly crucial as patients withvaried conditions require different levels of exercise and monitoring.In response to this challenge, our focus is on developing a cost-effective and user-friendly digitalspirometer. Paired with a mobile application via
2025 semester over spring break. The students will beimmersed in the bike-friendly city of Amsterdam, and visit several faculty and labs at TU Delft,including one of the only bicycle engineering labs in the world.Conclusion & Next StepsThe next steps for MEAM 1010 are to reconsider the content and implementation of the attitudestowards sustainability assessment and get IRB approval for administration so that results can bepublished in future work. The instructor will also work on better methods to evaluate the impactof including sustainability content in the course, potentially including the same attitudes towardssustainability assessment at the end of the course. For MEAM 2300, the instructor will continueto execute the plan to integrate
plan to give the questionnaire multiple times duringthe Spring semester. We also plan to give the faculty members teaching the course aquestionnaire designed for them. This will allow us to determine if the mindset of facultymembers affects the mindsets of their students as shown in previous research [11-12]. Based onthese results we will decide what, if any, intervention to implement in the course.Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarilyreflect the official policy or position of the United States Air Force Academy, the Air Force, theDepartment of Defense, or the U.S. Government. Approved for public release, USAFA-DF-2024-383: distribution unlimited.References:[1] Dweck, C.S., “Mindset
Education Experiential learning, most simply defined as learning by doing, can occur in multiplecontexts at the university level. For example, many undergraduates have opportunities for hands-on laboratory time, internships, and service-learning programs. Through these experiences,ideally four stages should occur: participating in the experience, reflecting about the experience,conceptualizing (understanding) what they experienced, and applying what they learned in asimilar setting [6]. When bringing experiential learning into the classroom, particularly within acourse focused on engineering design, it can integrate authentic learning experiences intostudents’ plan of study and daily lives [1]. A recent systematic review [7
Lent and colleagues (2005) that assessedparticipants progress at goal-directed activities at work; (3) a 4-item measure of turnoverintentions (Hom et al., 1984) that assessed plans for leaving current job; (4) a 3-item worksatisfaction measure (Hackman & Oldham, 1975) that assessed satisfaction with their currentjob; and (5) a 5-item life satisfaction (Diemer et al., 1985) measure of one’s global judgments oftheir life. Procedures. In Spring 2021, we recruited adults who received a degree in engineeringfrom 2015 and 2019, were employed as an engineer, and who identified as Hispanic, Latina,Latino, Latinx, or Latine or whose origins are from Spanish speaking countries to participate inan online survey. We sent emails to participants
isassociated with the “Driving Onward” function, while intuition contradicts sensing in this role.Similarly, the “Planning Ahead” role aligns with the judging function, while the perceivingfunction opposes it. However, introversion, feeling, and thinking do not exhibit explicitassociations with specific roles, suggesting the complexity of team personality dynamics.Despite these insights, there remains a lack of understanding of the direct influence of teampersonality on effectiveness and success.This study attempts to provide evidence by investigating the relationship between teampersonalities and performance within an interdisciplinary research group at a historically blackcollege and university (HBCU). This group, operational for over four years
Achievement, and Instrumental Readiness [4]. A study on students highlights that motivationand interest in entrepreneurship can significantly contribute to social and economic developmentif supported appropriately. It advocates for problem-based learning and political support forentrepreneurial training programs [10]. Another study found that entrepreneurial education (EE)positively affects EI, particularly among management and engineering students, although itsimpact varies according to the field of study [11].In a developing country context, a study using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) exploredhow attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and subjective norms impact EI among engineeringstudents in Medellin, Colombia. This research underscores