principles and practices for mineral and energy resource projects at the graduate and undergraduate levels.Rennie B. Kaunda , Colorado School of Mines Dr. Rennie Kaunda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mining Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, and a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Kaunda spend 7 years in the mining industry where he worked on more than 50 global projects through- out Africa, Asia, South America and North America. Dr. Kaunda’s areas of expertise are surface and underground rock mechanics, geotechnical engineering, numerical modeling and artificial neural network modeling. He has published/coauthored more than 13 peer-reviewed
, and suggests the additional challenges that could arise for those doctorallearners in interdisciplinary contexts.Journal clubs, list mediated examinations, and proseminars are three pedagogical approaches thathave been discussed in writings on doctoral education. Golde identifies the first two of theseapproaches, journal clubs and readings lists, as signature pedagogies by which differentdisciplines address goals of helping doctoral students learn to work with the literature [8].Journal clubs, which are common in medicine and biological sciences, are somewhat formalsettings in which individuals come together to discuss pre-chosen scholarly articles. Because theprocess of reading a single article is repeatedly made visible in the journal club
studied ethical decision-making in engineering students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Impact of Flexible Classroom Spaces on Instructor Pedagogy and Student BehaviorIntroductionThe use of active learning techniques, such as asking students to respond to multiple-choice“clicker” questions or to work together with their peers to solve a problem in class, has beenshown to benefit students by improving their retention of information, conceptual understanding,self-esteem, and attitudes about their program of study [1], [2], [3]. However, many barriers stillremain to the implementation of active learning, including insufficient training for instructors, alack
. Scale V3: With 0 meaning not important at all and 100 meaning highest importance, Numeric Rating display the level of importance you believe each competency has in the industry Scale where most of your graduates become employed.As shown in Table 1, survey questions were developed using multiple question types thatprompted respondents to select an answer, identify a rating using a numeric scale, or write-in ashort response. Items requiring a numerically-rated response were used to identify levels of valuefaculty placed on leadership within the undergraduate engineering curriculum. For all items, an“other” option was provided to capture any unanticipated responses. In the event that
forengineering students and then demonstrating these tools. If there are other engineering librariansat the new librarian’s school, peers can be an invaluable source of guidance and support. For thesolo engineering librarian, more proactive measures will be necessary to quickly ramp up one’sknowledge. • Search the vendor sites of major engineering databases and electronic libraries at your school such as Compendex, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, and Knovel Engineering Library. Many have wonderful tutorials and supplemental information to get the new librarian up to speed quickly. • Searching Google for engineering research guides will return many example guides from other libraries that will help the new librarian to
ofEngineering Practice,” presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition [17] andan online discussion of, “Nursing Should be a STEM Discipline! Author Regards FlorenceNightingale as First Environmental Engineer,” which appeared in Reflections on NursingLeadership in February, 2018 [18].ResultsThe 2013 NAE report, “Messaging for Engineering: From Research to Action,” included anumber of calls to action [3]. Of great relevance to the members of ASEE was a call to include arecurring session on “messaging” at the annual ASEE conference and at the yearly EngineeringDeans Council Public Policy Colloquium. A search of the ASEE PEER document repositorywith the phrase, “changing the conversation,” identifies a total 214 publications from
collaborating philosophers to the table to do it. But rather thanphilosophers as collaborators, philosophers’ place of necessity is in its historically traditionalrole of trespassers or gadflies to the practical and professional processes of others.Of course, we might intuit that only the most stringent purists would hold onto one or another ofthese hypothetical polar positions. It is more likely that most engineers and most philosophersconsider their roles within engineering ethics as collaborative, integrative, and constructive:space for working together on complex epistemic and ethical problems. For example, a 2007blog post on business strategy argues for the importance of collaborative expertise betweenphilosophers and engineers. The authors write
peer mentors help mitigate the growing pains of entering the research environment foryoung students. Unfortunately, graduate student peers are resources that many teaching-focusedcolleges and universities like our institution, York College of PA, do not have. In this case,strong mentorship from – and a good relationship with – faculty advisors becomes increasinglyimportant [12], [13], [14]. Despite challenges faced by small institutions, Lilja [15] notes thatundergraduate students have a lot of potential to do research work. York College of PA offersonly bachelor’s degrees in engineering and focuses on teaching courses with smaller class sizes.We desire research activity, but we also wrestle with these limitations discussed above.York College
customized. The five SALG questions are as follows: 1. How much did the following aspects of the course help you in your learning? (Examples might include class and lab activities, assessments, particular learning methods, and resources.) 2. As a result of your work in this class, what gains did you make in your understanding of each of the following? (Instructors insert those concepts that they consider most important.) 3. As a result of your work in this class, what gains did you make in the following skills? (A sample of skills includes the ability to make quantitative estimates, finding trends in data, or writing technical texts.) 4. As a result of your work in this class, what gains did you make in the
course design. In phase II, participants are engaged in a 4-weekasynchronous online course that begins to address backward design as it relates to eachindividual’s course and allows participants to experience online learning from a studentperspective. Participants work with various instructional materials to gain foundationalknowledge and are required to engage in peer discussions to help explore pedagogical ideas andstrategies. Each week, participants submit assignments that are meant to serve as working draftsfor later refinement in the course design process. These assignments include defining courselearning outcomes, mapping out and aligning formative and summative assessments, creating anassessment, creating a syllabus, and identifying
Paper ID #22542Virtual Reality Implementation of a Scanning Electron Microscope in Nan-otechnology EducationLandon A. Braden Landon is an electrical engineering student at Utah Valley University. As a member of UVU’s nan- otechnology team, he writes lesson material and participates in experiments involving nanotechnology fabrication. He is also an amateur inventor.Scott Alexander Kaiser, Utah Valley University Scott is an undergraduate physics student at Utah Valley University. He is working as a research student to develop laboratory experiments for an associate level nanotechnology program.Dr. Reza Kamali-Sarvestani, Utah
their peers without disabilities [7, 8]. Students with disabilities must oftenspend more energy than their peers to negotiate physical, cultural, and bureaucratic structures ofthe university to effectively access the curricular and co-curricular resources necessary tosucceed.Our work addresses this vital need by heeding the call of the Research in the Formation ofEngineers (RFE) program to explore the “development of identity as an engineer and itsintersection with other identities” [9] by using grounded theory to understand how students withdisabilities develop (or fail to develop) professional identities. Moreover, because practices andexperiences can vary widely across fields, particularly with respect to physical and cognitiveexpectations
to see the educational innovations of passionate and talented educators, but howdo these innovations get adopted? It is hard for even the best educational innovations totransfer to a colleague’s classroom16 It is less likely for an innovation to be adopted by adifferent university. As a result, many engineering educators are re-inventing the wheel andexcellent innovations are underutilized.If educators had unlimited temporal resources this would not be an issue. But manytransformative educational practices require teams of people to develop and test. Others arethe result of a personal passion and decades of building, coding, writing, and/or tweaking.Educators do not have the luxury of dedicating years of effort to a project that affects
modeling studies of industrial odors and wellbeing in Colorado com- munities, diesel exhaust pollution, indoor environmental quality and respiratory health, asthma and air pollution, and radon. She has published over 60 peer reviewed articles on air quality.Dr. Joseph L. Polman, University of Colorado Boulder Joe Polman is a Professor of Learning Sciences and Science Education, as well as Associate Dean for Research, in the School of Education at University of Colorado Boulder. He designs and studies project- based learning environments for youth in schools and community programs. He focuses on learning and identity development connected to practices of science, literacy, history, and journalism, with a particular aim
, personal identity, and social skillsamong others. While engineers lack a stellar reputation in the social skill realm, there is a levelof difficulty to constructive feedback and conflict resolution regardless of profession, withexperience and practice being key in improvement. In order to meet our objective of developingstudent skills, modules will need to be developed to assist students with constructive feedback.Possibilities being explored include role playing, brainstorming solutions to difficult teamproblems, and using the CATME peer evaluation tools [29]. Our on-going efforts are focused onmodules specifically around conflict resolution. Figure 4. Percent of Fall 2017 survey respondents strongly or somewhat agreeing with Likert scale
cultural change surrounding gender.Gender in EngineeringEngineering has been described as a hegemonic, masculine culture [1]. Societal and interpersonalgender dynamics, a lack of role models, and lack of community in the field can cause women toalter their gender presentation and sense of self or to leave ‘feminine traits’ at the door in order tofit in [2]. It has also been documented that women in engineering experience a slowerdevelopment of engineering identity and a diminished sense of belonging [3]. LGBTQ+ peoplein STEM have reported similar experiences, including a rate of closeting that is double thenational average for all LGBTQ+ persons, and report higher levels of harassment anddiscrimination than their ‘straight’ peers [4]. While the
to calibrate and compare their own progression through their degreeprograms to the progress of their peers. As implied by curricular flowcharts (another importantartifact), the default progression for engineering students begins in the first semester with Calc1, proceeding onwards through the math sequence and ideally completing the required coursesby the fourth semester of their undergraduate careers. Consequently, students classified as notready for Calc 1 who start at Pre-Calc in their first semesters are already “behind” their peersfrom the start of their college experiences while students who place into Calc 2 or 3 their firstsemesters are “ahead.” Feeling behind rather than ahead can be potentially detrimental to studentattitudes and
callEngineering Design Days, has been implemented in slightly different ways to engage the variouscohorts of students and to investigate best practices.Each instance is two days with no traditional classes, labs, or tutorials, where the students workin teams to design and build solutions to open-ended problems. These problems are designed tointegrate knowledge from across multiple courses. Students solve design problems by makingphysical systems using off-the-shelf components. The solutions are presented and tested in frontof their peers at the end of the second day.Students and course instructors from each implementation provided feedback through surveys,focus groups, and interviews. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and indicates anincrease
Engineering Education, 2018 Exploring Engineering Major Choice and Self-concept through First-Year Surveys 2018-04-30Choosing an appropriate major is an important factor in ensuring a productive and successful college experience.Major choice determines the type of work the students will engage in and the faculty and peers that they will come incontact with, both of which have been shown to impact student learning, satisfaction, and persistence.1 Forengineering students, the selection of a discipline can be an overwhelming task. Many first-year students have onlyvague notions about what engineering is and a limited understanding of the scope of the work that might be typical
-Progress study, the research team explored two differing engineering courses ascases. The first course (case) was a Technical Communication course, which is considered a non-technical course to support students’ writing skills. The course is a mandatory course forengineering majors at the same institution of the original study [10]. The students enrolling in thecourse are primarily in their junior year in engineering and represent the majority of disciplinesin this college. The semester prior to this work in progress paper, data on the original iteration ofthe engineering professional identity study was published [10]. The authors followed the sameparticipants in this Technical Communication course in an effort to capture the changes inperceptions
benefits of both unproctored and proctoredassessment depending on the level of Bloom’s taxonomy. First, unproctored preliminaryformative assessments including reading assignments and homework assignments are deliveredvia McGraw-Hill’s LearnSmart and Connect tools, which allows multiple attempts and isweighted to impart 12% of the course grade to encourage knowledge acquisition and offerrudimentary feedback. Next, a semester-long project consisting of biweekly labs is weighted20% of course grade to assess higher orders of learning such as engineering design, technicalreport writing and teamwork ability. Finally, the subsequent assignment for 45% of the coursegrade are conducted in a proctored computer-based testing center in the forms of quizzes
co-PI on 16 projects, funded by the National Science Foundation, with a $6.4 million research funding participation from external sources. He has been directing/co-directing an NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering at VT since 2007. This site has 95 alumni to date. He also leads an NSF/Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site on interdisciplinary water research and have 10 alumni. He also leads an NSF-funded cybersecurity education project and serves as a co-PI on two International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) projects funded by the NSF. He has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. ¨Dr. Rolf
like your effort linearly translates into a goodacademic result.”Overall, transfer students find that the educational environment at UC Davis emphasizes gradesinstead of understanding concepts. Academically, these students do well, and self-report thattheir community colleges adequately prepared them for UC Davis (as discussed in the secondtheme). Survey data indicates that there is no significant difference in GPA dissatisfaction ascompared to traditional students. However, transfer students spend more time on their coursesthan their peers. The average transfer student self-reports spending 16-20 hours per weekstudying and on other academic activities outside of class, whereas the average traditionalstudent only spends 11-15 hours per week on
been produced before, newproduct, very innovative. If there was any company that thought of the plan as recommendable,then it could be put into production. It’s an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest, so for it beput into production, we needed to write the business plan in the start-up part, the final proposalwas a commercial proposal.”—Linda “When we finished the product…we had to change our thinking into, just as our teacher said,project management thinking, how we can better sell our product, presenting it to the audience,how we can introduce the product to those experts to catch their interests and how to present itsfunctions in a better way. Different ways of presenting can have very different effects.”—DavidFeasibility
(TableC3 in the Appendix). Survey results indicate a majority of teachers (64%) continue to use thecurriculum units they designed as part of their RET program. Almost all respondents felt thatthe curriculum units were useful teaching resources (91.7%). One hundred percent of teacherswho enacted these units found them to: attain their learning objectives; be effectivelypresented through engaging, real life contexts; presented at an appropriate age level; includeadequate resources to support student learning; and be well aligned to the NGSS. Teacherresponded that they have made changes to the curricula after piloting to ensure the best fit intheir classrooms. Survey results confirm that teachers are disseminating the curriculum unitsto their peers
experiential learning [19]. The keywordsfrom this cycle are shown within parentheses in Figure 1. FIGURE 1. KOLB EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CYCLE WITH GREENWAY’S KEYWORDSThe concrete experience stage is used to engage students in performing some sort of activitywhere they apply their ideas and skills. Experiences from activities generate facts – the events,moments, and details associated with the activity. Next, the reflective observation stageencourages students to reflect on their experiences through mechanisms such as self-evaluation,peer discussion, and instructor feedback. Reflections generate feelings, an assessment of theexperience from various modes of input. During the abstract conceptualization stage, studentsintegrate their
faculty members in the submission of approximately 600 grant proposals, including co-writing, editing and serving as the Pro- gram Manager for 8 awarded STEM education grants totaling more than $13M. She has collaborated with University offices, faculty and staff in the facilitation of recruitment strategies to increase the quality and quantity of undergraduate and graduate enrollment in STEM programs. Ms. Ward now manages the day- to-day operations of the DragonsTeach and ExPERTS programs, including supporting the development of programs of study, student and teacher recruitment, fundraising and grant-writing, hiring and supervising staff and student workers as well as coordinating program evaluation.Dr. Adam K
Houston, xyuan@uh.eduAbstractIn this paper, the authors detail their journey writing and implementing a successful S-STEMproject proposal, and sharing the lessons they learned in the process. In addition to providingscholarship for twenty promising students, the S-STEM grant allowed a team of faculty frommultiple disciplines to develop and test new student support mechanisms and programs at theengineering technology programs in an urban large public university with a diverse studentpopulation. The goal of the program is to enrich and enhance students experience during theirhigher-education tenure and ensure their success after they graduate and join the professionalworkforce by preparing them to be technically competent and professionally ready
Education, 2018 Paper ID #23616 chemical and biosensors andthe integration of sensors into wireless, non-invasive and inexpensive sen- sor devices. She is focused onhealth applications, and environmental health and safety. Currently, she has over 70 peer-reviewed publications, three patents,11 patent applications and 4 transferred intellectual properties. In addition, she has served asGuest Editor of Nanotechnology Journal, and is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biosensorsand Bioelectronics.Dr. Heather M Ross, Arizona State University Heather M. Ross, PhD, DNP, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School for
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