femalegraduate students in STEM in order to help students improve their skills and effectively relaytheir message in such a way as to promote their academic and professional success. The newcurriculum includes written modules that are designed to help students obtain communicationskills that are essential for managing difficult situations, such as, Planning Your Message, ActiveListening, Expressing Yourself, and Receiving and Responding to Feedback.38 This content also includes interactive video simulations that provide training in threecritical interpersonal communication skills of active listening,39 receiving and responding tofeedback,40 and self-expression.41 Each simulation presents a scenario that research has shown tobe problematic for
history.34 Again, a theisticworldview might suggest that this occurred when the system voluntarily strayed from its originalpurpose. It is common knowledge that engineered systems are susceptible to damage orcorruption when used in unintended ways. Even so, a good engineer will foresee this possibilityand perhaps plan for a redemptive solution that somehow draws good out of evil and suffering.Such a solution is provided by Christian theism, for example.Another class of examples of ingenuity in nature involves the recognition of engineered solutionsto problems in the natural world. Sometimes, natural solutions are discovered only after human Page
] .To assess and evaluate progress and outcomes, we developed a comprehensive plan consisting ofdirect and indirect assessment. These assessments included course-specific assessments (i.e.,exam questions), interviews and discussions with the instructor, student perception surveys, anda student demographics survey. For the summer semester containing some flipped instruction, aformative course evaluation survey was administered. Our course evaluation survey wasmodeled upon the work of Leicht, Zappe, and colleagues in their flipped classroom research andwas expanded upon based on our own research questions and interests [12,14].2. MethodsIn this section, we discuss in greater detail the assessment methods we utilized. We distributedour various
feel that including these additionallenses enables us to see more facets of the phenomenon than we would otherwise. Anotherreason to explicitly attend to these dimension, even while being unsure of our own footing onthese arguments, is that we feel not doing so would contribute to silencing (and hence,marginalizing) how gender, race, and public discourse play a role in the phenomenon we study ineducation research. In future work, we plan to collect demographic data which might help usrefine our claims. As initial explorations, the arguments presented in the paper are bound to haveinconsistencies and incompleteness. Acknowledging that, we humbly hope to pursue moredetailed analysis in future work.AcknowledgmentsWe thank the participants who
at the undergraduate level1.We explore one part of Harren’s model: the sources of information used by students during whatHarren defined as the planning stage. According to Harren: This stage is characterized by an alternating, expanding and narrowing process of exploration and crystallization. The expanding aspect of exploration involves searching for information or data about the Task and about the Self-Concept in relation to the Task1.The Task here can be related to the particularities of the career or major, which is the aim of thisstudy. On the other hand, the Self-Concept in relation to the Task has a strong connection to theCompetence Beliefs, as defined by Eccles and colleagues in their expectancy-value
the existence of codes plotted in Figure 2, there isgeneral improvement across the coding categories between F13 and W14, with significantincrease in the FBD and Results categories as shown in Table 1. One of the possible reasonsbehind this increase is the structured guideline introduced in Intervention 1. Since in F13, therewere no explicit instructions on how to write an abstract, the introduction of a guideline withspecific details has shown to provide the students a clearer way to write the abstract. It must alsobe noted that providing the students with sample abstracts could also be a possible reason behindthe improvement in terms of the existence of the codes as the students were able to refer to thesesample abstracts and start planning
givenopportunities to engage in creative activities may not persist within engineering. Alternatively, itis possible that engineering program hinders the development or expression of creativity in thestudents that do persist and progress. A longitudinal study would provide insight into how theengineering curriculum impacts students’ creative self-concepts and whether creative self-concepts impact persistence. The authors are currently planning to survey the first-year studentswho participated in this study when they are finishing their senior years. This will allow forfurther examinations on the characteristics of students who leave engineering and whether anyrelationship exists between persistence and creative self-concepts. Most analytical and
details the pilot study’s methodology and draws general conclusions based on thefindings.The pilot program discussed in this paper will be used to inform the performance of a moreextensive research study. Ultimately, it is anticipated that the full experiment’s results,recommendations, and subsequent discussion will advance the body of knowledge needed toequip current and future instructors with the nonverbal communication training and skills tosupplement their ability to quickly and accurately assess students in their classroom.The pilot study discussed herein and planned full study have been designed to approximatelyreplicate a previous study performed using K-12 teachers as the participants. No known priorattempts to generalize the study to a
motivate currentstudents, to attract future students to the program, and to raise interest in the community.Students report that the contest increased their interest in electrical engineering, was useful as alearning tool, and was a valuable investment of their time. Students also express that the contestmotivated them to learn, provided them with a good engineering experience, and was moreeffective for learning course material than conventional laboratory sessions. One drawback ofthis approach is the sacrifice of depth in some course topics to allow more time to teach contest-relevant material. However, they suggest that these drawbacks can be alleviated with morecareful course planning 22.Impromptu design contests have also been used to achieve
and industry collaboration, the structure ofnew industrial control and automation laboratory, state-of-the art PLC and Mechatronics stationsintegrated with FANUC robots, and resulting curriculum modifications.Industrial Automation Laboratories at the Other UniversitiesAt Virginia Tech, College of Engineering, the Robotics and Automation Laboratory22 is used asan instructional laboratory for undergraduate and graduate courses in industrial automation androbotics. It is also used as a research facility for projects with industry (e.g. guidance and controlof driverless linked vehicles), NASA (e.g. automated fiber-composite structure manufacture),and NSF (e.g. automated path planning and passive assembly). The lab is equipped with: IBM7545
. Technical competence has previously been defined as a high level ofmotivation, use of intelligence to solve problems and make decisions, teamwork, managementand leadership of others, communication, planning and management of a project and resources,innovation, and a strategic view of the larger picture of the project1,2. These competencies, alongwith technical knowledge and experience, have been linked to future professional experience andbetter final design projects2,3.To meet these requirements involving project work, higher education institutions have twolearning approaches, problem based learning (PBL) and project oriented learning (POL). PBLhas been previously defined as learning that is student-centered in small groups facilitated by
. The Model B Raspberry Pi has twicethe SDRAM, an additional USB 2.0 port (both of which are moved to an integrated 3-port USBhub,) and a 10/100 MBit/s Ethernet USB adapter which takes up one of these ports on the hub;the tradeoff is that the Model B takes 3.5W of power as opposed to the 1.5W required by theModel A. Both Models run on a variety of Linux distributions such as Raspbian (a DebianWheezy port) and Pidora (a Fedora port), in addition to other OS such as OpenElec and RISCOS. The official distributions are optimized for the CPU's ARMv6 instruction set and are freelyavailable for download, yet many more are available for download. 5 Nearly all distributions areLinux-based, with the notable exception of Plan 9 developed by Bell Labs
responding to a set of SJT questions reflect some level of consensus on what are themost and least effective ways of handling each situation. Some low consensus response optionsmay be used as distractors or thrown out, but the whole question might be discarded if expertconsensus is limited or nonexistent. The question of what counts as consensus is also debatable. Page 26.442.10Additionally, we plan to explore use of various other scoring strategies that have been proposedin the SJT literature, comparing them for their relative strengths and weaknesses in terms ofdiagnostic accuracy, as well as strongest predictive validity.20-21,30-31 Doing so
present the development of our educational DCmicrogrid platform which includes popular renewable energy sources and hybrid storagesystems. This lab-scale platform provided an educational environment for senior students andgraduate students to take part in laboratory experiments and to understand and develop new ideasfor DC power system applications. I. Introduction Power system planning and its design are the major challenges of the future power system [1]-[3]. Recently, DC microgrid and hybrid DC power systems have gained a lot of popularity andinterest. The importance of the DC power system is not only because of the fact that most of therenewable energy sources such as solar and fuel cell have a DC output but also becauseimplementation
their written communication skills by documenting the design, design verification, prototype fabrication, testing and validation.12- The students had a chance to improve their project management skills by setting up project plan, time line and etc.13- The students had a chance to work in a team framework and experience the challenges associated with it.Faculty involved in this project received very positive feedback from the student who conductedthe project. At the beginning of the project, the students thought that the topic was uncommonand unconventional. However, the students became interested in the topic as they read andlearned more about the project. They were convinced that they had the opportunity to work on adesign project
issues?”Based on interview responses, it was apparent that there was student interest to further pursuecybersecurity in various ways (additional courses, performing research, and seeking jobs). Mostof the students we interviewed considered cybersecurity to be a component of their overall Page 26.496.4education and career plans, but not the main focus. By the end of the semester, all students wereglad they had taken the course. While there were a few students who had one or two topics theydid not like, interest rates ranged from somewhat interesting to very exciting. When asked, mostindicated they would be willing to take additional cybersecurity
learning outcomes by providing specific constructs that can be expected of globalservice learning project students: • In terms of engineering ethics, future studies aimed at measuring learning outcomes should focus on measuring students’ awareness and understanding ethical issues pertaining to their project’s cultural context. Engineering educators, industry professionals, or student leaders who mentor or lead related global service learning projects should consider having team members explicitly discuss and plan for potential ethical issues pertaining to the project’s cultural context. • With regard to engineering cultures, future studies aimed at measuring learning outcomes should focus on measuring
new student understanding. Engineering Matters Results The Engineering matters survey allowed us to start understanding the motives and viewsof people who are entering the program as first year students. A majority of peopleentering the program did so because they plan on working as an engineer or attendinggraduate school for engineering. Most people had heard about the program frominstitutional information outlets. Interestingly, just as many people cited “a friend orrelative” for how they heard about the program, which is surprising given newness of theprogram. When selecting the institution specifically, the engineering program was the 3rdmost picked option after the campus and community. It was also found that the mostcommon majors
development of the categories and questions included in the RACI. Resultsfrom a pilot test were used to assess (1) the level of improvement for question sets and conceptcategories after course instruction, (2) student confidence in answering question sets, (3)relationships between performance on the RACI and course performance measures, and (4)internal consistency reliability measures of the instrument and categories. The paper ends with adiscussion of plans for ongoing and future work.Summary of Exploratory Work The primary objective of the exploratory study was to identify and categorize studentmisconceptions that may impede student learning of engineering concepts related to water flowprocesses5. The context of the study was an urban
case studies that depict effective classroom teaching.Session 5: Culturally Responsive Teaching in STEMThis session utilized resources from the Association for Curriculum Development (ASCD), TheNational Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCREST), the NationalEducation Association (NEA) and the STEM Education Research Institute to encourage futureand new STEM faculty to: be cognizant of the importance of student's socioculture; act asleaders of change and acceptance; and adopt a teaching and learning perspective that embracesthe use of critical thinking and multiple perspectives to approach problem solving. Participantsused the guidelines for developing culturally responsive teaching skills to map a plan to hone
skills”, “know how to better engage the audience,”“learn by osmosis,” and plan their presentations for next year. Two respondents did notanswer this question, and one said he/she did not feel attending Idol would help themdevelop since he/she had “already been a finalist” in Idol in a previous year.E. Student perceptions of Idol competitorsAs with the faculty respondents, many student respondents felt that Idol participants werepassionate (5), knowledgeable (12), confident (5), willing to learn (1), and had used theirsocial skills to connect with the audience (4). Two students also mentioned that the Idolparticipants appeared to have a good sense of humor. In terms of knowledge, Idolparticipants were seen to “know more than their own project
the Research”, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 223-231, July 2004.12. Van Eynde, D.F., & Spencer, R. W., “Lecture versus experiential learning: Their differential effects on long term memory”, Journal of Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, 12, 4, pp. 52-58, 198813. Hake, R.,”Interactive-engagement vs. traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses”, American Journal of Physics, 66, pp. 64-74, 1998.14. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning; A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies. Washington, D.C., 2010.15. Echo 360 Survey "The
plan, students must take courses in other majors the purpose ofwhich is to broaden the knowledge foundation for a particular course of study. These coursesare often called service courses. A service course is a course offered by a department other thanthe students’ major that is either required or an elective for the major. Likewise, serviceteaching refers to the practice of knowledge and expertise of one school or department to teachstudents in a course co-ordinated by another academic unit. Nankervis defines service teaching,according to the literature, as: “… the delivery of compulsory courses or elements of a program by a discipline with specific expertise to students from a different faculty, department or discipline
suggest to other faculty mentors. A sampling of faculty responses representing a variety ofexperiences in the program is summarized in Table 1 below. Each row of the table representsresponses from a single faculty mentor. What advice would you give other faculty What did you learn as you mentored the student? mentors?The program is a great medium to connect with students I would strongly encourage participation and plan toin the program at a higher level. It helped the student be participate again if given the opportunity. I would alsoinvolved in department
is an area they plan to focus on during thesecond semester of the capstone design course. Students were asked questions from Figure 2regarding their perceived strengths and areas for improvement. Responses to how studentsdescribed their strengths in areas related to their discipline are reflected below. “Due to the curriculum, I have strengths in water and wastewater, air pollution, and groundwater contaminants.” Page 26.678.17 “Resource accumulation and cost analysis on treatment units, water flow and regulations.” “Working in a team, equalization basins, headworks and tertiary treatment”Student responses when
process: the author must come upwith an idea, conduct experiments (depending on the field), sift through a small mountain ofinformation or data, develop a coherent plan, and, finally, write and revise until the author issatisfied that s/he has produced an original, perhaps even significant, contribution to the field.It is especially daunting for those who have spent their careers focusing on a narrow area. AsRosenweig and Schnitzer explain, “it takes creativity, time, and considerable effort to produceand publish a brand-new perspective,” especially when the author has already written about thetopic.46 It’s much easier to take something off the shelf, spruce it up a bit, and submit it to adifferent journal.But this smacks of “intellectual
plan, to determine the usefulness of data in solving a problem, and toidentify additional research needed.When we initially began administering these assessments, we did not collect identifyinginformation on the students. Because of this, we were not able to identify for how long studentshad been participating in the EYE program. While the findings from this cohort may be dilutedby participating school students having varying levels of EYE Module participation, we believethey are still informative.Students who were in the 2012-2013 8th grade cohort had the opportunity to complete the RiverTrash and Biofuel assessments. Although we were not able to limit our analyses to matchedstudents, as we have in every other area, we are able to see some
,people learn more deeply when they integrate text and pictures, thereby building both verbal andpictorial representations of the same material.2 The slides from the lecture-style videos includedin our example course are admittedly very text-heavy. Melissa Marshall convincinglydemonstrates the assertion-evidence approach to presentation development,4 and therefore theauthors plan to move towards this approach during the next revision of the instructional videos.Provide Focused ContentInstruction should not be technology-centered, but rather learner-centered. It is not the mediumin which the content is delivered (video versus live presentation, or slide presentation versustalking head), but the pedagogy and the instructional method that results in
beenperformed by a group of research/teaching faculty members from diverse departments(electrical/computer engineering, security, and computer science). Data management has been apivotal part of this integration, noting that the results are useful for advancing global educationand with the aim of possible improvement from both research and education communities. Suchresults are possible through a closely-monitored data management plan for quality assurance ofdata which could be possibly modified by engineering industry and academia. The eventualoutcome of this integration is a step-forward to fill the current gap of research in and educationof emerging security mechanisms