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ethics to mobile technology. A multitude of “how to write a teachingcase study” guidelines are available, including in construction education. However, literature thatprovides insights into developing a specific case study in construction engineering andmanagement is scarce. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper presents the dynamics ofdeveloping an educational case study to explore the implementation of target value design(TVD). This case study was developed for engineering and construction management students toformulate, discuss, and decide on strategies, actions, and solutions to provide the best value tothe project owner when implementing TVD. This work-in-progress paper focuses on the pilottest when developing the case study. Pre-class
engineering-related scenarios, situations, or dilemmas. The students areassessed based on the following: (1) individual or team responses to the engineering-relatedscenarios, situations, or dilemmas discussed in teams in class; (2) a reflective paper on theengineering profession, (3) a peer-reviewed paper on addressing a professional dilemma inengineering, and (4) two team-based assignments—an infographic and a video. Students areassigned to teams randomly by the instructor at the start of the semester (a maximum of 6students per team) and work in the same team throughout the semester, i.e., for the in-classdiscussions and the two team-based assignments.To facilitate team building, students participate in a number of ice-breaking activities. Teams
University, IN, USA. She also holds an M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a B.S. in Astronomy and Meteorology from Kyungpook National University, South Korea. Her work centers on elementary, secondary, and postsecondary engineering education research as a psychometrician, data analyst, and program evaluator with research interests in spatial ability, STEAM education, workplace climate, and research synthesis with a particular focus on meta-analysis. She has developed, validated, revised, and copyrighted several instruments beneficial for STEM education research and practice. Dr. Yoon has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and served as a journal reviewer in engineering
-based curriculum development process and before they began teaching their students.Consenting students also completed a survey after experiencing the coding lessons their teachersdeveloped and shared their experiences. Data collection included information on teachingmaterials developed by the teachers, teacher-related survey data, and student-related survey data.The data analysis focuses on two aspects of the work, namely the applications developed bythree teachers and their experiences, as well as the findings of their student surveys. While moreteachers and students participated, we were only able to reflect on these three teachers and theirstudents at the time of writing this paper.2.1 Overview of research-practice partnership professional
group field trips, and preparing grant applications throughformal concept papers. In this Work-In-Progress paper, we explain the study design for the near term thatwill examine how faculty have been impacted in their participation in the form of in-depth individualinterviews and a survey. At the time of writing, no direct data has been collected as this data is forthcomingin summer and fall of 2024. Any faculty elsewhere who have struggles in areas of junior faculty mentoring,the balance between research and teaching, and growing interdisciplinary research at your institution maybenefit from the lessons we are learning.KEYWORDSinterdisciplinary; water research; faculty development; community connections; integrated research andeducation
and scholarly approach. The structured framework has guided the comprehensiveexamination of relevant literature in a manner reflective of best practices in scholarly writing. Thereview used research databases, search strings, and inclusion criteria for an unbiased search toprovide a narrative description that elaborates meaning full story about the existing research in thisfield.Search ProcedureMultiple search databases were queried to select papers to write a literature survey. EBSCO host,Wiley Library, and IEEE Xplore databases were selected because they provide the advanced searchoption to apply practically identical search strings to select papers to ensure that the chosen papersalign with the objectives and focus of your research. EBSCO
either experiences with mentors, peers, and/or other instructors as having influenced theirprocess of preparation, though a large portion of respondents specified that interactions withinstructors influenced their process of preparation, but not peers or mentors. Many respondentsdescribed their experiences in seeking and receiving feedback as a TA from both peers and mentorsas beneficial. A few respondents stated that no one has helped them prepare. Regarding concernsfor a career in academia, many expressed worries regarding the pressures of research, potentiallack in work-life balance, low salaries, and the difficulties of finding a faculty position.Additionally, some expressed concerns regarding the culture of academia; including factors
members are then expected to watch the recorded presentation and write a paragraph summarizing the content. This method promotes collaborative learning among students, encouraging them to grasp their solutions thoroughly to effectively communicate these solutions to their peers. These assignment formats have been successfully implemented in various courses, including Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Python, and other computing-related topics. • Answer questions related to diagrams in exams and quizzes. For example, the activation function is an important part of the design of every layer in the deep learning neural network and there are many of them, as shown in Figure 2. For instance, a sigmoid
and Use Committee (IACUC), and grant writing and proposalpreparation. Additionally, a session on technology transfer is provided.A mid-term report is due after 4 weeks, and at the end of the program a presentation poster is tobe presented to the public, faculty, and fellow students, with a demonstration of the projectdesigned.The program has been successfully conducted in the summers of 2022 and 2023, with intentionsto proceed into summer 2024. The current year's participation data is encouraging, featuring 31undergraduate students, which constitutes 10% of the school's undergraduate body. Thedistribution across academic years includes 3 seniors, 8 juniors, 14 sophomores, and 6 freshmen.Fairfield University's summer research initiative
problem-solving process – from ideasformation to solutions – with their peers. To evaluate the effectiveness of the implemented lab strategies, students in theparticipating courses were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Bothassignment grades and students' feedback via surveys were used to evaluate students' learning.Participants in the control group were learning in labs through the materials that were alignedwith core concepts by following predetermined procedures. Students in the experimental grouplearned through inquiry-based lab materials that required them to work in teams by integratingcore concepts together to find a solution and while following one of potentially manyapproaches. To maximize the online lab
. Throughout the semester, students engaged in consistent practice of positive teamwork.Table 1. Student learning outcomes of the Chemical Engineering Reaction Kinetics Course. 1. Students can write and apply appropriate balance and constitutive equations for a given reactor scheme. 2. Students can obtain a functional rate law for a given chemical reaction from experimental data for the reaction.3. Students can obtain an optimal design of a reactor scheme from among possible alternatives.4. Students can use Excel spreadsheets to obtain solutions to problems in which analytical solutions are not possible.3. Activities for Integrating Problem-Solving Studio into 75-minute Chemical ReactionKinetics Sessions.3.1 Introduction
with their faculty mentors toinvestigate new UAV applications as well as to create new UAVs. Students’ work resulted in anumber of internal posters and PowerPoint presentations at university-wide STEM researchsymposia, four senior project reports with posters and presentations, and one MS thesis. Students’designs involving a novel octocopter with overlapping propellers were also used in writing anexternal grant application. Furthermore, all students engaged in this vertically integrated project(VIP) were retained or graduated. In addition, 20% of the students obtained MS degrees. It is hopedthat this work will add to the VIP body of knowledge and will inspire readers to implement similarprojects in their own institutions.Introduction
the complex professional environment.Engineers interface daily with non-technical peers - clients, managers, directors, executives,stakeholders, government or policy makers, marketing, etc. - and thus an even greater need todemonstrate an excellent ability of communicating their ideas (Norback et al., 2009).The changes made as a result of ABET EC2000 promoted greater curricular emphasis on oraland written communication skills within engineering education (National Academies, 2018).Although many engineering faculty cited a lack of incentives existing, more than two thirds wereinvolved in teaching professional skills across diverse engineering coursework (NationalAcademies, 2018). While great strides have been made in the last two decades of
Wiley. He has helped lead the ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 WIP - Fostering Team Science in an Engineering Education Research TeamAbstractThis poster displays results from a project supported by an NSF grant to enhanceinterdisciplinary collaboration in civil and environmental engineering education. In its secondyear, part of the project focused on improving team science competencies within the coreresearch group. Key activities included workshops on collaborative writing and grant writingbest practices. The team attended a Science of Team Science (SciTS) workshop to refinecollaboration skills and responded to the Teaming Readiness Survey, which revealed
design an experiment to address the design brief. In addition tosolving the problem, students must ensure their solution is realistic through considerations ofcosts, safety, and regulations. Students then write a memo, design report, or white paper as theirlab assessment. They report both their technical results, individual interpretations, andrecommendations based on the results.Early labs in the sequence contain significant scaffolding for students through guiding questions,examples, and class discussions. This scaffolding is slowly removed throughout the coursesequence to help students develop independence. The sequence ends with an open-endedlaboratory in which students are given a mystery material and must determine the type ofmaterial and
strategies like peer-instruction[61].The instructor hopes to improve the reception of the Student Board Notes by more firmlycommitting no more than a quarter of lecture time (15 minutes) to (a) students writing their noteson the board and (b) reviewing and correcting those notes, with the remaining class time devotedto example problems and quantitative homework problems. Due to poor student preparation seenvia either insufficient or incorrect notes, in-class time spent on Student Board Notes in the firstyear of implementation often took over half of the class. Overall, faculty agree with studentsabout the imbalance in class time between conceptual understanding and quantitative elementsand look forward to addressing this shortcoming in the next
ineducational settings. Mirroring the development of plagiarism detection mechanisms, these toolsaim to identify AI-generated content through advanced analysis of writing styles, patterns, andnuances. However, AI-generated content's dynamic and sophisticated nature requires these toolsto employ techniques that surpass traditional textual matching. Evaluating the authenticity ofstudent submissions has thus become a critical function of these tools, detecting AI involvement,and preserving the integrity of the educational process. However, these detection tools are notwithout limitations [17]. Writing tools, such as Grammarly, which assist a user with documentproofreading, editing, and suggestions now make use of AI in their product, which will
mentioned during the interviews, “...they [thestudents] are going to be the messengers that carry the message of AMR forward to their peers,into their homes, to their parents.” The curriculum incorporated storytelling elements in the formof narrative-based educational videos, retellings of student experiences, and humanizingpathogens in story building (Figure 5).Figure 4. Examples of the curriculum's utilization of storytelling elements. (Left) Discussionslides use human-scaling for pathogens to create context, (Right) narrative-based storytelling instudent activities.Preparing the students to become the “messengers” to their communities required the ability toarticulate the concept of AMR orally. With the goal of fostering communication skills
involvesconfidence in taking on research challenges, learning new skills, and contributing to the project team.Finally, recognition by others plays a pivotal role in solidifying an engineering identity. It can be definedas “recognition (i.e., beliefs that they are seen as a good student in the subject by peers, parents, andteachers) as being the type of person that can do a particular subject” [17, p. 2]. In the context of thisstudy, recognition reflects both interpersonal validation from engineering peers and mentors as well aspersonal internalization of external recognition. Through others identifying their engineering talent andtechnical contributions, students begin to think of themselves as good engineers worthy of that field. Withengineering interest
narratives.Author 1 invited Authors 3 and 4 to take part in the data collection process based on their sharedinterests. We then began writing individually. To write individually, we engaged in a “datageneration exercise” [12], which includes chronologically listing major events or experiences,the circumstances of these events as well as stating why these events are important. In terms ofcollaboration style, we adopted Partial concurrent collaboration, where researchers contribute todifferent stages in the process but do not fully engage from the beginning to the end.The concurrent model allowed us to write individually based on the overarching prompt and thenshare stories with the team. Sharing the stories with the group helped us add probing questions
Course Learning Outcome Assessment Tool Outcomes Have experience with writing proposals and doing proper 1 Project proposal 3 literature reviews. Have experience with conducting market and customer needs Customer needs analysis 3 2 analysis and Ethnographic study Formulate design requirements for potential solutions, including technical and non-technical specifications, while Final report 3
Awards. Increase financial support for low-income students with academicability/talent or potential for engineering degree programs by offering an average of 24scholarships per year over a 6-year period to at least 36 unique students. Attention will be givento recruiting students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in engineering at theUniversity.II. Multi-Layered Mentoring. Support student’s academic success, matriculation, sense ofbelonging, persistence, and career aspirations with faculty mentors, peer mentors and industrymentors; coordinate with academic advising.III. Social and Academic Support. Foster cohort formation through collaborative design teamprojects for introductory engineering design courses, regular S-STEM activities
discipline), and anarticle published in 2013 or later. The sources consulted to find the peer review articles for thismapping review were the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) PEER DocumentRepository and the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). In the remaining of thisarticle, we will refer to students with physical and sensory disabilities as students withdisabilities.Among the exclusion criteria, we chose to exclude studies that focused on students’ experiencesin online education, settings and accessibility in online or learning systems. K-12 and graduateeducation-focused students were also excluded for this review. Studies that focused on theperceptions and experiences of engineering educators, instructors or teachers
,these processes are determined by external processes, i.e. environmental and behavioralinfluences, such as the learning climate (the environmental factors), and encouragementfrom a teacher or peer and positive outcomes from previous learning (the socialconversion factors); and third these three processes are reciprocal. Reciprocality does notequal symmetrical or bidirectional influences. Rather, it stresses: (1) one can use personalprocesses to ‘strategically regulate behavior and the immediate learning environment’,where the feedback can in turn influence the person’s covert process[14]; (2) theinfluences of externally social experiences and environments are important to internallypersonal processes[15]; and (3) ‘Behavior is, therefore, a
realm of artificial intelligence(AI) research. By focusing on the development and implementation of real-time computer visionon energy-efficient Cortex-M microprocessors, we offer a practical and educational avenue forstudents to delve into the burgeoning field of AI. Through a combination of theoreticalunderstanding and practical application, students are empowered to explore AI concepts, gainproficiency in low-power computing, and contribute to real-world AI projects. Furthermore, theproject offered student interns a valuable opportunity to refine their research capabilities,particularly in the realms of scientific writing and presentation, while simultaneously boostingtheir self-assurance and enthusiasm for pursuing STEM careers in the field
account for ….. I would rather spend an hour of my time working with the student to get back on track than an hour of my time just writing emails telling explaining why they have zero and all their assignments.Joey’s ability to balance clear expectations with flexibility in the classroom shows how hispersonal PCK is shaping his teaching approach. Additionally, his interaction with students, suchas spending time working with them individually, suggests that he is adapting his teachingpractices to the needs of their classroom context. So, these first-year instructors' personal PCKand the classroom context in which they teach are both important factors that can influence theirpedagogical practices. Effective teaching requires a balance
determining the extent to which students’ engagement with Frankensteinwas able to facilitate ethical reflection and professional identity formation. To address thisquestion, the current study begins by situating the class discussion of the novel within thebroader aims and structure of the course; then, it analyzes a series of student written reflectionson moral aspects of the novel and its portrayal of Victor Frankenstein specifically. The analysisorganizes the data into salient themes that emerge from the written reflections illustrated byselections of student writing. The data indicate that students were able to articulate severalethical themes that emerge from the novel’s depiction of Victor Frankenstein’s practice of roguetechno-science and
experiment or extracting from other research 6. Analyze the data 7. Check the results against the hypothesis 8. Write up whether the hypothesis was correct or incorrect 9. Reassess and develop a new experiment, identify different variables or biasesWe compared our list of steps to the following list, which was prepared before lecture by theinstructor based on their own experience and interpretation: 1. Make an observation 2. Ask a question 3. Develop a hypothesis 4. Do background research and identify appropriate variables 5. Conduct an experiment to test the hypothesis and selected variables 6. Analyze results 7. Write conclusions 8. IterateSeveral parallels exist between the two lists, with the major
entire class and was very effective atrevealing perspectives that were otherwise not shared through case studies and groupdiscussions. With arguments coming from their own peers, students seemed willing to expandtheir perspective on each issue and even change their mind. Interestingly, students described theexperience as less “formal” than group discussions, permitting the sharing of more personaltruths.Modified Pisces GameThe modified Pisces Game was primarily mentioned by students in tutorial deliverables and finalreflective essays. It was a very impactful activity in the course and was often highlighted bystudents in their reflections and writing after participating in the tutorial. Five themes emergedfrom a review of sources.Theme 1: Leaving