Page 26.300.6on campus, and participated in workshops on topics such as effective writing and “survivingengineering.” These co-curricular activities were intended to introduce students to differentresources on campus that could be valuable to them, and to call attention to some of the commonchallenges that students face during their first year. Students also went on site visits to localengineering companies, in order to familiarize them with the local engineering community, andgive them an overview of the various career opportunities available within the field.Throughout their time in the program, participants stayed in a residence hall together and had thesupport of a peer mentor, a sophomore engineering student who provided assistance
Page 26.742.7their possible selves5,19. In this way, the personal statement may serve to position and prepareparticipants to engage in self-regulated learning by setting a foundation for goal setting,establishing the standards for comparison, and providing the means for motivational andbehavioural monitoring5.Although the personal statement is to be written outside of the workshops, the workshopexercises were designed to support students in writing their personal statement by offering thetime and space for reflection, discussion, and peer feedback. The specific workshop exercisestarget elements of the personal statement to inspire participants with ideas and content forformulating their personal statement. We posit that participants’ personal
Paper ID #12057Reflections on Experiences of a Successful STEM Scholarship Program forUnderrepresented GroupsDr. Sedig Salem Agili, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Sedig S. Agili received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Marquette University in 1986, 1989, and 1996, respectively. Currently he is a Professor of Electrical Engineer- ing teaching and conducting research in signal integrity of high-speed electrical interconnects, electronic communications, and fiber optic communications. He has authored numerous research articles which have been published in reputable peer refereed
year, members of the teams undergo a survey toassess their strengths and weaknesses. Through this survey, it was determined that a number ofinternational and domestic students had proficient technical skills, but lacked in the areas offormal technical and non-technical write-up reports and presentation skills. At the end of theschool year, another survey is conducted to assess the skills of the students. In the 2013-14academic school year, the EVP had 80 members. A majority of international students did nothave experience writing reports and giving presentations. The end of year survey of thesestudents revealed that they had improved on these skills. Via peer-led teams and constructivecriticism, international students developed skills working
with little design experience or understanding ofengineering practice. This paper provides suggestions on how these challenges can beovercome and, in particular, how self-assessment rubrics can help eliminate much of thetraditional design course assessment workload for teachers. This paper provides suggestionsfor preparing incremental self-assessment rubrics for a capstone design course. While bothself- and peer-assessment can provide significant assessment time-saving for tutors, self-assessment also promotes student learning, according to recent education research.Appropriately designed rubrics can also provide students with guidance on levels ofattainment required for design tasks and students also learn to assess design
notes, working or reworking problems, andwriting down important equations. Students also mentioned making flashcards and utilizingmemorization techniques.To prepare for future assignments or exams, students set Reviewing records goals of readingassignments, reviewing class materials, examples, homework, notes, etc. One new thingmentioned included discussing materials to review them.After attending the Study Cycle workshop, students set Seeking social assistance goals to attendtutoring or other learning center programs and utilize campus resources, such as professors,advisors, teaching assistants, peers, and the Writing Center. Utilizing these types of resources oncampus was not mentioned as a strategy pre-workshop, with the exception of one
student teams. Interrogating theinteractions African-American males experience within multiracial teams enhances ourunderstanding of how they experience engineering and what peer interactions reduce spotlightingand disconnection. Page 26.1545.2IntroductionTeam projects in undergraduate engineering programs are critical sites for professional skillsdevelopment. Designed to simulate engineering work, team projects allow students to try onprofessional roles as they interact with peers and faculty. Also, engaging in engineering activitiessuch as a team project can help students establish a sense of identity within their field, which inturn influences
). Page 26.1430.4 Table 1 – Coding scheme description and examples.Domain Category Description Example Refers to writing or presentation of the design “There are grammatical error[s] Communication work. throughout the paper.” Explicitly refers to one of the design concepts Design Concepts taught in class by using terminology taught in “The goal could [be] more specific.” class.Substance Refers
example of an idea for anew function in an existing open-source software, or, as we mentioned above, the idea ofa new article that needs writing in Wikipedia as classic examples of the conception. Thedevelopment of that new software feature or the actual writing of that new article mightthen be done by the person who proposed the idea; or it could be implemented by someother individual. The second peer production characteristic, “the harnessing of diverse motivations,”suggests that while some participants are motivated by pay, there are many others whoparticipate for other non-monetary reasons, such as user-centered need,4 enjoyment or“serious leisure”,5 the intrinsic desire to learn, and/or support for “freedom philosophies”that underlie
are at piquing the interest of the reviewer! In addition, the WISE@OUsenior STEM faculty offered to review individual URC proposals before they were submittedand provided individualized feedback on the organization, writing and content of the proposals.Following the well-attended workshop as well as the individualized proposal peer-review, thesuccess rate of all STEM assistant professor applicants jumped from 36% in 2012 to 67% in2013 and to 100% in 2014. The impact on women STEM assistant professors in particular washigh as a larger proportion of them had applied for the URC fellowship awards in 2012 yet hadsignificantly lower success rates than their male counterparts. While we realize that thesespecific examples of internal awards may not
with an interest in renewable energy or sustainability but, typically,little previous coursework in math or science. Each cohort had 8 student peer leaders orTAs, who were committed STEM majors and served as mentors and teaching assistants.The emphasis was on hands-on activities within small teams in a daily four hour labsetting. An important component was built-in time for tinkering and creativity aroundcontextualized assignments. Unlike most college experiences, the desired outcome was toprovoke interest rather than to impart a specific body of knowledge. Participation,exploration and fun were valued over the rigidity often found in STEM instruction. A widerange of approaches were used including; demonstrations, games, hands-on activities
of nanomaterials relevant to energy conversion and storage devices. Dr. Banerjee’s teaching interests lie in the fields of thermo- dynamics and heat transfer. He has received several prestigious awards including the 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award in 2013, the Pratt Fellowship at Virginia Tech and the Best Poster Award at Dean’s Forum on Energy Security and Sustainability at Virginia Tech. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and presented nearly 30 times at national and international meetings, organized symposia at conferences and serves as a frequent reviewer and referee in his field. Page
credible Internet sources and the library’s research databases. Strategies forwriting accurate, vivid technical descriptions were presented using a collaborative in-classactivity in which each group examined the validity of a news story (i.e., Is it real or sciencefiction?). The article examination required groups to research the story and describe the sciencebehind it. In Week 3, the writing module focused on avoiding academic dishonesty and includedtime for peer-review of students’ major paper assignment via draft swapping.Engineering Discipline Panel Sessions: The Associate Dean for Academic Affairs coordinatedthe panel sessions. While the engineering modules were general in nature and did not discuss aparticular engineering field per se, they
shares someelements with collaborative learning or peer tutoring4: it provides a “social context” and a“community of knowledgeable peers” (p. 644) that students can participate in, even ifthat participation is simply sitting in the audience or watching a video of one of theirpeers presenting. Participation in the social context and community is not always passive,however. As will be described below in the ‘Results of student surveys’ section, Idol somotivated one of the prize-winners that he organized a series of Idol-preparationworkshops to coach his classmates for the competition.Since students, even those who did not attend the Idol-preparation workshops, seemedmotivated by their peers’ Idol presentations, we became interested in which
. Page 26.1763.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Work-in-Progress: Conflict-Driven Cooperative-Learning in Engineering Courses Abstract Conflict and cooperation would seem to be ideas that are diametrically opposed to each other. But, in fact, classic work by Piaget on how children and adults learn shows that when learners engage with peers in critical discussion of ideas concerning which they have different understandings, that contributes very effectively to learners developing deep understanding of the concepts involved. At the same time, getting students in undergraduate engineering
cohorts through a series ofproject-based learning (PBL) courses. Furthermore, this attempt is enhanced by the introductionof incentives that encourage student involvement in undergraduate research as well as on-campusengineering organizations. The specific focus of the mentorship is on student-studentrelationships in addition to the conventional faculty-student relationships. These relationshipsallow students to learn from each other since they are able to strongly relate to each other’sexperiences among their peer group. The mentoring model proposed in this paper formulates alearning community that allows the student to form a support group and a mechanism forpreventive intervention, as discussed in other studies on mentoring programs. Such
equations, drawn on chalkboards or whiteboards. In capturing lectures on video however, these traditional props become liabilities: the presenter must turn away from the audience to write or draw on the board, and the presenter’s body often obscures the material. We developed the Lightboard to create visually compelling videotaped lectures, to avoid the liabilities of chalkboards, and furthermore to be able to produce upload-‐ready video segments with no post-‐production. The Lightboard is a glass board, carrying light internally from LED strips along its edges. A video camera captures the presenter and his/her writing by viewing through the
peer editing, targeted computing grant proposal writing and career-life balance discussions including remote call-ins from faculty role models at other institutions.A faculty member from the Department of Biomedical Engineering was funded by a Connect grant todevelop a peer mentoring network. This project included addressing the challenges raised by thereviewers of a declined grant submission, leading to resubmission of this proposal. This wasaccomplished using an external mentor who provided guidance on designing effective experiments.This process enabled the grantee to broaden mentorship to other experts in their research area andsupported their professional development by establishing their research lab and assisting with becomingknown as a
Page 26.403.6primary faculty mentor who is closely related to that student’s field of study, and returning scholars serve as role models and mentors for the new scholars. The faculty mentors meet withtheir mentees at the beginning of each semester and as needed throughout the academic year. In addition to undergraduate mentoring, faculty peer-mentoring is also an important componentof the program. The faculty mentors for the MAX program consist of a mix of professors,associate professors and pre-tenure assistant professors. The weekly planning meetings are usedfor continuous improvement of the MAX program, but they also provide an outlet for peer-mentoring and building community amongst the MAX faculty. Topics such as academic writing
experiences for first year studentsa. By 1982, over 175 educators acrossthe country came together to discuss first-year seminars, and the following year the AnnualConference on the Freshman Year Experience was born. Today, an effective first-yearexperience has been identified as a high impact educational practice by the Association ofAmerican Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Although these experiences differ significantlyfrom university to university, ranging anywhere from a single course specifically taken in themajor itself, through more involved practices including live-learn communities, Kuh emphasizesthe most influential points of a first-year experience include a “strong emphasis on criticalinquiry, frequent writing, information literacy
this approach), the students are asked to summarize the described technology orscientific advance, using peer-reviewed sources to verify the claims made within the newsarticle. Potential sources for these news articles are given to the students as a primer to thisexercise, but the selection process is entirely student-driven, allowing the students to exploretopics they personally find interesting rather than having instructors dictate appropriate topics. Page 26.1755.2Depending on the course and /or instructor, the “mini” approach and specifics vary. We reporthere on three variations on the “mini project” theme in courses that range from the
Paper ID #11936Improving Engineering-Student Presentation Abilities with Theatre ExercisesMr. John W. Brocato, Mississippi State University John Brocato is the coordinator of the Shackouls Technical Communication Program in the Bagley Col- lege of Engineering at Mississippi State University, where he teaches technical communication and pro- vides writing/presenting-related support to the entire college. He is the LEES Division Program Chair- Elect as well as the Campus Representative Coordinator for ASEE’s Southeastern Section.Mrs. Amy Barton, Mississippi State University Amy Barton (M.A. in English from Mississippi State
teamingabilities at the end of the semester, students writing more varied sections of laboratory reports,and more students taking on a leadership role at least once during the semester compared to theTreatment B framework. The Treatment A framework produced no reduction in free riders orincrease in laboratory report quality, as observed or evaluated by students. While the submissionof two draft reports does not appear to have significantly reduced free riding, in combinationwith online peer evaluation it may reduce team conflict.Some of the differences observed between the three Treatment A sections and all thirteenTreatment B sections disappeared when only comparing Professors Morgan and Mallouk’s Aand B-1 sections. This indicates that some of the
- Work in-Progress9 Instructor/team Mtg Fabrication Peer Review Debrief10 Writing Design Reports Instructor/team Mtg Assembly11 Instructor/team Mtg Assembly12 Wikipage Review Instructor/team Mtg Testing13 Instructor/team Mtg Testing Logbook Review14 Expectations for Instructor/team Mtg Report Writing Design Expo Logbook Debrief15 Design Expo Day Instructor/team Mtg Prep for Booth Display Report Review Design Expo Technical Talk16
mitigate the problem. It was anticipated that the students would learnabout international business environment, cross cultural elements of engineering problems, andsustainable solutions. Students learning outcomes were evaluated using pre and post survey,focus group’s evaluation, and peer evaluation. A sensitivity analysis was also conducted tojustify effectiveness of new learning outcomes. All students agreed that the course projectincreased their knowledge and skills to solve engineering problems in global settings. About92% students responded that the project increased their interest about different cultures andmulti-perspective analysis, and 72% students, up 52% from pre-survey, said that the project washelpful understanding engineering and
. The reasons why they drop out is not well understood unless we review some of the potential causes [5]. According to the National Survey of Student Engagement from 2006, external obstacles for NT students have made it more difficult for them to develop peer relationships (study groups) at the university [10]. Professional barriers are typically found in the workplace and relate to lack of tuition reimbursement, time management, and/or lack of release time from work. Institutional barriers include lack of access to higher education, the high cost of tuition, and diminished affordability [2]. Furthermore, because adult learners also face the
30% Progress as measured by weekly write-ups and presentations 30% Skills homework 25% Final “lessons learned” presentation and video reportAssessment of the course and continuous quality improvementA thorough evaluation of the course is imperative to understanding what strategies worked best.A pre-assessment questionnaire will be developed to first gauge the student’s familiarity with thecourse topics at the beginning of the semester. This evaluation will be in addition to the regularcourse evaluation process for all college of engineering courses. Students will be asked in theend of semester questionnaire specifically if they felt that the course met each of its specifiedgoals. Additionally, we plan to implement a peer review
atmospheric electricity, radio wave propagation, and digital signal processing. He and his students are currently conducting research in both geophysics (e.g., fusion of lightning and satellite data) and computer engineering (e.g., human interface devices and handheld gaming consoles). He has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, including some with DigiPen students.Christopher Theriault, DigiPen Institute of TechnologyProf. Charles Duba, DigiPen Institute of TechnologyDr. Lukas P van Ginneken, Digipen Institute of Technology Lukas van Ginneken is a professor of computer engineering at Digipen Institute of Technology. His interests are digital logic, field programmable gate arrays, computer architecture, hardware
, promotes collaboration, inspires generosity, and encourages life-longlearning.In this paper, we present the framework of the program focusing on the structure of the summerworkshop (MadE Leadership Mentoring Program) and the introductory course (EngineeringLeadership I: Theory and Practice). The MadE Leadership Mentoring Program is a summerworkshop that allowed students to conduct individual introspection while developing the coreidentity of the program and the leader peer group. Engineering Leadership I permitted theexploration into how leadership theory can inform and direct the way leadership is practiced anda platform for feedback during the semester as matters pertain to leading first-year students. Thecourse is constructed to advance our
., 2010, “Measuring engineering design self-efficacy,” Journal ofEngineering Education, 99, pp. 71-79. Page 26.1074.11 AppendixThe rubric used for peer evaluation to determine individual contributions is shown below. Peer Rating of Team Members: ENGR 350 In the table below, write down the names of the individual members of the group in which you worked for the project as part of ENGR 350 this semester. Rate your participation and the participation of each group member. You have to rate the degree to which each member fulfilled his