Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Ibrahim Ali Olwi, King Abdulaziz University

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Faculty Development

Storytelling as an Effective Mean for Stimulating Students' Passion in Engineering ClassesAbstractStorytelling was employed as a powerful tool in stimulating students' interest in the classroom ofa sophomore level course in engineering design. Over two years, students’ assessment of themethodology was obtained through a survey that incorporated students that have and not havetaken the course. The outcome of students’ satisfaction and support of telling stories by theinstructor was overwhelming among both groups of students. The impact was not targetedtowards just creating passion in the classroom, but the active participation and reflection on thestories was sought to lead to ethical values pedagogy. To gain multi-cultural

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Mansur Galikhanov, Kazan National research Technological University; Alina Guzhova, Kazan National Reserch Technological University

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Faculty Development

, methods, evaluation toolsand procedures during the interim and final evaluations;- receive comments and recommendations for making corrections to the program content, eliminateorganizational shortcomings for further successful implementation of the program.Summarized results of the survey are reflected in the table below. Questions in the questionnairewere formulated so that the audience had the opportunity not only to choose from a range ofresponses, but also to express their opinion in free form. The survey was attended by more than 80per cent of trainees.The analysis of the trainee results and comments revealed "narrow" places of the programs andways of their improvement, and confirmed that all four training programs constitute an

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Lev Vadimovich Redin, Kazan National Research Technological University, Russia

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Faculty Development

knowledge of its basic constitutingelements, the principle of disjunction, that consists in isolating and separating cognitivedifficulties from one another, leading to the separation between disciplines, which havebecome hermetic from each other, the principle of relativity. Dialectic: the law of the unity and conflict (interaction) of opposites (ancient Ionianphilosopher Heraclitus); the law of the passage of quantitative changes into qualitativechanges according to measure (Aristotle); the law of the negation of the negation (Hegel) (orauthor interpretation – the law of the reflection of the reflection of the reflection), principlesof historicity and futurism. Modern Physics: uncertainty principle, correspondence principle, principle

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Maria Nandadevi Cortes-Rodriguez, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Miguel Alfonso Nino, Virginia Polytechnic and State University

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Faculty Development

Page 20.31.6Education Services, and one of their directors served as the moderator for the program. This seminar included students from several disciplines, including 15 STEM students.While the number of STEM “in-person” attendees is small, students who attended the seminardiscussed their opinions with students who did not attend through our “Professors BeyondBorders” online discussion group. The responses from the online discussions reflected thesentiments of the 15 STEM graduate students who attended this seminar in person. Figure1shows that 93% of the participants felt that the seminar gave then important information; inaddition, Figure 2 shows that 60% of the students who attended the seminar gained a morecomprehensive understanding