) (b (c) (d Figure 3.1. (a) Play-doh buck, (b) vacuum formed mold, (c) candle wax in mold, (d) final product4. Project AspirationsAs previously mentioned, the end goal of this project is to provide a device that is readily andeasily accessible to as many people as possible, so that they may be able to more easily makenew things and contribute to a more sustainable world. As such, upon the completion of thisproject, it is planned that all files and documents related to creating a vacuum form device likethe one outlined in this document will be redistributed on online maker forums and websites suchas
align with learning objectives. Moreover, the examples must be structured in aprogressive sequence, ensuring that each subsequent problem builds upon the understandingdeveloped in earlier exercises. This careful design is essential to cover the full scope of coursecontent without relying on traditional lectures or pre-class materials.Although solving examples is an effective pedagogical tool, it is inherently time-consuming. The"race against time" becomes a significant concern, especially in courses with dense syllabi. Despitethis, the framework has been successfully implemented without sacrificing any critical topics,demonstrating its feasibility with strategic planning and well-crafted exercises.Another challenge involves students
find themselves in. Thus, each formal researchproject that a JEDI ambassador conducts will not be solely research, but we will also ask who thestakeholders are who are most affected by the research project and incorporate their perspectiveinto the research design. Conversely, each educational design or leadership project can be thoughtof as an activity that requires background knowledge, planning, testing of outcomes, andevaluation or improvement.JEDI Cohort Year and Implementation TimelineThe JEDI Ambassador Program spans four years, following an annual cycle of summer recruitmentand training, fall and spring project work, and a spring end-of-year showcase. We anticipate thateach cohort will comprise five JEDI Ambassadors, mentored through
-printed mechanism for a Machine Design course.Overall, the performance of each team was satisfactory. Many proposals developed resulted in amodule that could be readily implemented into our engineering curriculum, with the pneumaticclaw and fish tail design teams producing successful prototypes to showcase the module outcomes.Documentation of these modules revealed deep connections to both the soft robotic principleschosen and the proper educational material designs. We plan to implement some of these resultingproposals into their intended courses in the future of this project.Survey OutcomesOut of 9 students participating in the clinic project, 7 completed the post-clinic survey, and 6consented for their data to be used for publication. This
wereexceptional in connecting the classroom to real life, complementing the interdisciplinary lessonsof the course, while adding analytical depth to final deliverables from all student teams. Withcareful planning, similar results could be achieved without expensive international travel —either through domestic alternatives (as with the team addressing DS-51 visiting Washington) orelse forgoing visits while preserving the pedagogical aspects of the course.ConclusionsThis paper presents a case study which brought engineering and political science studentstogether in a flipped-classroom, experiential learning course. The impetus for this course is theneed for interdisciplinary thinking to address the nation’s most pressing national securitychallenges
children to complete the activity on their own.Based on these findings, we revised four previously developed MAKEngineering kits [10] by theresearch team to target the needs of homeschool families. In general, the kits were designed tofollow an engineering design process – research, plan, create, test, improve, and reflect – similarto that of Teach Engineering [11]. See Figure 1 for an example. In this kit, children were taskedwith the following: You have been asked by a popular shoe company to design a new trendytennis shoe for unique needs of their four customers. Pick one of the customers and design atennis shoe to meet their needs. You decide to use everyday products to construct the tennis shoeprototype.Figure 1. Engineering design cycle for
thinking with automation tools (ISTE Framework), andothers as practices involving computer tools (NRC, 2012, as cited by [19]). In this aspect, anincreasing trend has drawn attention to CT activities involving algorithm design tasks andeducational robotics [20]-[21]. One of the reasons is that coding games enhance children'sproblem-solving abilities, requiring strategic planning, self-regulation, and logical reasoning[22].Despite this broad discussion, how preschoolers engage with CT is still obscure. Engagement is aconstruct with multidimensional and interrelated components, such as cognitive, behavioral,emotional, and social [23]-[28]. Scholars have included a social dimension in recent studies,consistent with Vygotsky’s social constructivism
. Introduction and Educational Research GoalReverse engineering is a process whereby a person deconstructs a device to better understandhow it operates, including features that enable its capabilities [1–4]. Motivations for such anendeavor include the desire to repair a device, a plan to update the device functionality, or anaspiration to identify the design elements that are publicly disclosed given their presence in amarketed physical product. Deconstruction of physical hardware and its documentation are oftenreferred to as a “teardown” – a process that is legal and encouraged in industry, though thesubsequent use of the lessons learned is limited [5]. While teardowns play a prominent role in themedical device industry, including as a means to keep
improve student engagement andlearning outcomes [13].We have been working with Hope-Hill Elementary School as a trial laboratory since 2022. Therest of the paper describes the two “cycles” that have defined this collaboration thus far. First,though, we describe background information to help contextualize the “art” and “design”activities that are referenced later in the paper. Below, we introduce the Electronic ARTriumproject and establish the design thinking framework that guides this work.The Engineering Design Process in the context of anElementary School CollaborationThe framework that we used to understand the EngineeringDesign Process is shown in Figure 1. This process identifies sixstages of design (Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Test
courses align with the content in typical CS0 and CS1 courses alignedwith AP CS Principles and AP CSA, with the addition of pedagogical content, activities tocreate lesson plans, reflective journals and discussions. The following is an overview of thecurriculum coverage: • Introduction to Computing for Educators (2 credit hours) – Overview of history of computing and modern impact on the society – Theories of Computational Thinking – Pre K-12 Standards • Computer Education Programming Fundamentals (1 credit hour) – Concept knowledge crucial for developing and teaching programming – Practice reading and writing of basic program codes – Basic concepts of conditionals and looping
activities primarily focus on generative assistance, data analysis, computing efficiency,and research writing, GenAI-enhanced teaching encompasses preparing lessons, generatingsyllabi, creating assessments, engaging students, and developing lesson plans. Furthermore, theethical and safe use of GenAI must be considered, particularly in addressing issues such asmisinformation, bias, hallucinations, and privacy risks [6], [7], [8]. The emergence of GenAI necessitates a change throughout higher education [9], withfaculty playing an integral role in ensuring its success [10]. As key drivers of this transformation,faculty must proactively respond to the rise of GenAI, even before institutions formalize policiesand processes to guide its integration
the senior design courses. In addition, each team has at least onefaculty as advisor and mentor for the team. Industry-sponsored projects have at least onepractitioner as industry mentor/advisor for the team.Students are assessed throughout the term using several lenses: during instruction, students havein-class workshops, round tables and presentation of accomplishments of their projects. Theinteraction with their teammates and their mentors is memorialized into meeting minutes. On aweekly basis each team completes a worksheet stating their status of achieving the goals for theweek, as well as planned goals and actions for the following week. That keeps studentsaccountable for their tasks and creates a teamwork spirit where everyone must
within the content area of civil infrastructure.Civil infrastructure plays a fundamental role in helping to ameliorate or further exacerbate socialinequities. To make more equitable decisions in how we plan, design, operate, and manage ourinfrastructure, engineers need to better understand the fundamental and ubiquitous role ofinfrastructure in society. At the same time, engineers need to better communicate to the publicthe technical and economic challenges and tradeoffs inherent in infrastructure decision-making.This interdependent learning - among communities and engineers - will result in a morecomplete understanding of the complexity of these interrelationships. Offering undergraduatecourses that address equity and infrastructure to students
three interviews in the data collection plan were semi-structured interviews [16], [37]approximately 30-90 minutes in length. The interviews supported monologues from theparticipants with occasional interruptions from the interviewer, including clarifying orredirecting questions.The first interview built rapport between the interviewer and participant and formed theframework for each participant’s narratives. Questions were asked to explore the specific contextof the participant’s engineering education experiences, which helped situate subsequentinterview questions in the participant’s unique contexts. To capture epistemic experienceswithout using difficult terminology from the study’s theoretical framework, broad examples ofEIJ were used, like
resources (e.g., time, materials, budget)? ● How did I bolster the weaknesses of my early ideas or build on their unique strengths to maximize their design potential? ● What trade-offs did I make in choosing these concepts, and how did I prioritize certain features over others? ● How do I plan to break down my big idea into specific tasks with deadlines, and what strategies will I use to stay on track? ● How does my proposal facilitate opportunities for prototyping, testing, feedback, and iteration? ● What potential setbacks could impact my project's success, and how can I prepare to address them proactively?Concerns: Top Three Pain PointsList your top three concerns you'd like specific help or
accuracy, changes in responses, and possible issues with response repeatability raises thequestion of whether a virtual teaching assistant application of Generative AI requires furtherdevelopment.In our limited experience of this study, it was understood from the varied responses of thestudents that if one plans to use Generative AI as a tool in their courses, there is a need tostreamline the prompts to generate a response that aligns well with the requirements of thecourse. As a tool, there is always the difficulty of threading a line between ethical use andmisuse. It might be prudent for the instructor to follow some of these steps: 1. Clearly state that students are allowed to use Generative AI (ChatGPT) to solve or answer questions in a
get organized. We discussed everyone’s strengths and divided tasks so that each person focusedon what they did best. We also scheduled Zoom meetings as well as physical meetings to track progress and keep each otherupdated. Regular check-ins helped us solve problems as they came up.This experience taught us that good teamwork needs clear communication and flexibility. When everyone knows what theywere responsible for and understands each other’s strengths and challenges, it’s easier to avoid delays and keep things movingsmoothly. This project showed us that adapting our plan and supporting each other helps us succeed as a team
: “The kids…would be, helping somebody in the community, maybe clear their yard… So they’ll beplanning, bringing members, volunteers to come.” She described various community serviceprojects that she involved her children to participate, such as helping elderly neighbors, settingup fundraisers for the fire department, and organizing community events like spaghetti dinners.These activities involved her children in planning, organization, and teamwork, and empathy forthe community, which are important qualities for professional engineers.DiscussionThis study examined rural librarian and caregivers’ engineering-related funds of knowledge(FoK) with the aim to understand how FoK might address the challenges and goals for engagingchildren in online
outside the classroom (e.g. in other courses, in professional life). (1-5 slider scale) 17.How useful do you think using AI based tools are to assist you in writing. (1-5 slider scale) 18.How confident are you in your ability to use AI based tools to assist you writing scientific related documents? (1-5 slider scale) 19.Have you contributed to an educational open access resource related to science and engineering? (yes/no) 20.(if yes) I plan to contribute to open access research consistently in the future. (5 pt. Likert Scale – Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree) 21.(if no) Why not? (open ended text) 22.I would be interested in contributing to an open access resource related to science and
Limitations and Future WorkThe study has a number of limitations. First, the students are from a selective private university.It is possible that the positive results reported here will not generalize to other studentpopulations. Second, we did not collect data from a control group because our materials andquestions evolved over a number of iterations, making it difficult to compare between groups.Third, this study does not study student learning outcomes. We plan to conduct future work toaddress these limitations by working with another professor to collect data on student learningand perceptions prior to using our materials and then again after implementing a version of ourmaterials.7. ConclusionBasing the introductory MSE course around
Q22 Q23Figure 2. Who benefits from the design review process? Q22-impact of design review on project work, Q23-perception of initial CAD/design skills. Results shown with Likert scale: 1=strongly disagree and 5=strongly agree.In the open-ended questions, one comment noted that having feedback regarding manufacturing(3-D printing) would be helpful for design and suggested that their reviewer’s 3-D printingexperience could be noted on the design review form (Q18). One comment noted that thestructured process instilled a sense of planning insight for a better outcome and another statedthat they developed a sense of consistent reflection (Q20). While anecdotal, the comments wereseen more broadly in students by instructors and graduate TAs
marginalized students from developingtheir engineering identity? To truly address the global challenges of our world, I feel that wemust address these questions for all future engineers.Julie Vale (She/Her)When we proposed this panel, I was planning to write one story, something befitting of anadministrator who oversees the whole engineering curriculum at their institution, who hasinstitutional supports (financially limited as they are) for their initiatives and who is trying to bea good role model for her colleagues and students. With the current situation in the US and therise of alt-right ideologies in Canada and the rest of the world, I feel the need to write a totallydifferent story, something much more personal. I no longer want to talk about
intercultural understanding and internationalcollaboration skills through teamwork among students from diverse cultural backgrounds[7][8].At Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) in Japan, where the authors are affiliated, gPBLprograms are organized to cultivate globally competent science and engineeringprofessionals. Among these initiatives, the authors have annually conducted a collaborativerobotics workshop with partner universities abroad. In Academic Years (AY) 2020 and 2021,joint online workshops were held with University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, and in AY2022with King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand. Althoughthese robotics workshops were originally planned as face-to-face events, the COVID-19pandemic necessitated
everyone it made me feel like I was heard.” • Another student noted: ”The professor creates a document by using our feedback after each section and explains what is the plan based on our feedback.”Q13 - Perception of Being Seen and Understood: Rate how much you felt your feedback wasvalued.Students reflected on how their feedback was valued and how it influenced their learningexperience: • Pre-course confidence in feedback being valued level: 3.27/5. • Post-course confidence in feedback being valued level: 4.3/5. • One student shared: ”Being able to give feedback made me feel heard and understood since I knew that there were changes being made to the class to help cater to my needs.” • Another
Assignments which learners are expected to identify after the reflection phase. Discussions also lead to the refinement of the concepts which enable the learners to cultivate critical thinking on understanding the best practices in Computer Aided Design (additive versus subtractive workflows, parametric modeling, order of operations, etc.) d. Active Experimentation – The final stage of the cycle is the testing stage where learners apply the conclusions derived in previous stages to new experiences and test the extent to which they have understood the concepts. This stage enables them to enact a plan of action to convert theoretically derived concepts to practical tasks. In the curriculum plan, it is achieved
equation: Factor Score ∼ Survey Time (pre/post) + Demographic Variable (1)3.5 Analysis of responses to open-ended essay questionsThe three open-ended essay questions asked participants to discuss their questions and concernsabout the design and implementation of AI systems across different domains in healthcare andemployment selection (Table 3). ID Question A machine learning (ML) algorithm has been designed to assist radiologists with estimating the level of damage COVID-19 has caused to patients’ lungs. This can help the physician in prescribing an appropriate medication and treatment plan for the patients. The ML
on work groups focused on water infrastructure, PFAS chemicals and consumer confidence reports.3 Dr. Zachary Pirtle is a program executive for Exploration Participation in Science Strategy and Integration in NASA's Science engineering: standards Mission Directorate, supporting science within NASA’s and methods for human exploration plans. He is a leading researcher on bringing the engineering ethics and epistemology, and co-led a NASA community in effort to involve the public in informing NASA’s decision-making exploration plans. At NASA Headquarters in DC, he helped establish the Exploration Systems Development office, including the Space Launch System and
] back home. So I do identify. I know that I have a background and an understanding of how the system works that allows me to communicate and inform these communities to increase awareness. But I'm not that arrogant to think that I have all the knowledge, right? There's a lot of things that I don't know. So I do rely a lot on community knowledge to even design my sampling. And I feel like they feel comfortable talking to me. I work with them a lot. So in every project that I have, I involve communities and train them to collect samples. And then I share the data. … We do annual community conferences where we share this information, but the plan is to have a follow up with stakeholders to see how we can strategize and implement
students would first have to propose their experiment to their lab TA in the form of a documentwhere they describe the experiment that they plan to conduct, identifying equipment to use, ahypothesis or theory to test, independent, dependent, and control variables, and proposedexperimental procedures. Some budget was approved by the department for students to make smallpurchases for the course, if the lab manager found them to be reasonable, and students were allowedto use the department machine shop and 3D printing facilities to help them manufacture equipmentas needed for their investigation. Common purchase requests include off-the-shelf heat sinks,cartridge heaters, heating pads, thermal pastes, and samples of materials to use in their