characteristics: sickness, feeling dreador lack of satisfaction, feeling doubt and lack of confidence, or being polite or cautious.Individual participants also mentioned difficulties due to feeling shy and avoiding meetingpeople or feeling lazy.Language caused a great deal of stress. In first year:there is a lot of Irish people, and the teachers speak quickly and sometime we can'tunderstand it, but we try to focus in it and we take the main point from what he say (...)When I was in my country, I [took] these subjects, in my language. And it was really,really easy, in Oman, in my country, to do these subjects. But here because I understandthe calculation things, but when he speak[s], I didn't understand it. But I tried tounderstand it.During third year, a
calculate the Head Injury Criterion (HIC). The HIC number is based on theaverage value of time-dependent acceleration 𝑎(𝑡) experienced by the head of a person during animpact. The HIC associates different likelihoods of head injury to different ranges of values ofthe HIC number.In a car safety crash test, anthropomorphic test devices, or simply dummies are placed in thedriver’s and/or passenger’s seat(s). A demonstration video is available for students athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj9xqrRskrY.The HIC number is defined in equation (2) as follows, 1 𝑡 2.5 HIC = Max[(𝑡2 − 𝑡1 ) × (𝑎̅)2.5 ] = 𝑀𝑎𝑥 {(𝑡2 − 𝑡1 ) × [𝑡 2
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robot worked together and could repair or re-assemble the robot. The CoEstudents, working on the same project, learned, from the WCOB students, what the business casewas behind the robots and why each type of functionality was important to a consumer need.Measuring ProgressChanges in creative thinking abilities and in student engagement will be measured by using theAbbreviated Torrance Test for Adults (ATTA) [11] and the National Survey of StudentEngagement in Engineering Students (E-NSSE) [12], respectively. The Team Climate Inventory(TCI) [13] will be used to evaluate whether regional technology companies that offer authenticSTEM experience internships or co-ops experience a significant increase in their climate forinnovation in the area(s
many other different places aroundthe world. By offering an engineering geology course to the engineering students, and inparticular those civil and geotechnical engineering majors, students will experience a whole viewof an engineering project life cycle, and thus more comprehensive design can be accomplished[25] .Local Ohio geology maps in Figure 2 shows that the studied project site has exactly or similarglacial valley geology of a kettle lake formation [13, 14, 15]. The embankment slope movementlocation in the buried glacial valley is oriented N-S, Figure 2, where a fully saturated strata isformed. The valley constricts at the project site is resulting in a “charged” strata under externalload. The local kettle lake strata results in
partners.Additionally, the spaces should accommodate projects and competitions such as the ChemicalCar Competition, DOE wind energy, ASCE Concrete Canoe, ASCE Steel Bridge, roboticscompetitions, design competitions, NASA design competition(s), NAE Engineering 3U, AIChEvaccine design competition, DUI Grand Interaction Challenge, and hack-a-thons.As construction on the LIC began, the decision to locate the facility in a central, visible locationhelped to generate interest in the facility. Some students were already familiar with these kindsof centers because of two existing makerspaces on campus, and their word-of-mouth exchangeshelped to generate excitement. Students began contacting planning committee members withquestions regarding new student organizations
. The non-profit team providedgrant management and oversight for the colleges’ funded STEM programs, requiring quarterlyreporting of their financial expenditures and budget balances, progress against their proposedtimelines, and narratives describing program status, outcomes, and challenges. The SFAz PIresponded to these reports with emails, phone calls and site visits when appropriate, providingongoing support and guidance to the college PIs to ensure their program’s success.STEM Metrics Development ApproachFrom its onset, the SFAz+8 program was designed to generate evidence to validate achievementof the program goals. Objectivity was ensured through the use of an external evaluator. Eachprogram goal had associated measurable outcome(s) and
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questionnaire questionsPresentation Questionnaire1. Instructor explanations were clear and carefully explained.2. The instructor(s) was knowledgeable in the subject matter.3. The use of a "roaming" lecturer helped me learn the software.4. This topic is very important to my career.5. I preferred the use of peer teachers to learn Microsoft Project.5. Results and AnalysisData collected from the pre and post questionnaires show that there was a large increasein preference of peer teaching over more traditional learning. In general all questionsdemonstrated an improvement after the intervention of the peer teaching methodology.Table 3 and Figure 1 summarize the results of the teaching group pre and postquestionnaire
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with member(s) who had completed themodule and incorporated a microcontroller board into their design was also compared to the restof the class by comparing average final project scores. Final project scores for the RubeGoldberg machines were assigned based on performance, complexity, and professionalappearance. The performance score was based on how well the task was carried out and includedpoints for the precision of the device’s timing and for successfully completing the final step(unlocking the door). Project complexity was assessed by counting the number of different stepsin the process from device activation to the door being unlocked. Finally, projects were expectedto be professional in appearance with the team’s name, logo, and theme
mechanicalengineering, civil and environmental engineering, biomedical engineering, and electrical andcomputer engineering created a Scholarship Program for Undergraduate Retention and Success(SPURS) with the support of NSF’s S-STEM initiative. The proposed program consists of anintegrated approach to increase the number and graduation rate of undergraduate students whoenroll in the College of Engineering. As financial constraints are a major disincentive forstudents to enroll and persist in higher education, this project combines scholarships with otherforms of academic and professional support to ensure student persistence and completion of aB.S. Engineering degree. Providing resources and educational opportunities for undergraduateengineering students will
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engagement.These theories will contribute to our understanding of how community issues can be used as thecontext for mathematically rich authentic problems that enhance and develop students’ level ofcommunity engagement, career exploration, STEM knowledge, literacy, and motivate students topursue STEM disciplines.AcknowledgementsThe authors gratefully acknowledge the participants in this study, including project evaluators,community partners and content experts. Also, this material is based upon work supported by theNational Science Foundation under Grant No. 1513256. Any opinions, findings, and conclusionsor recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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should reinforce underlying ECEconcepts while providing examples of ECE and BME application. Our 305’s portable modulesfor nScope, strike this balance. Since nScope and Digilent Analog Discovery share manysimilarities, we anticipate the earliest partial implantation of these modules in EEL3111C to takeplace in Spring 2018. The researchers will have then have the opportunity to study the wayinstructors employ new materials, the difficulties they face, and what can be done to overcomethose barriers. Perhaps the most challenging HPL principle to implement in a web-based platform is“assessment-centered,” as it entails optimizing the amount and type of formative feedbackprovided to the students. We will use the results to examine the effectiveness of
W 2017 S 2017 ECE Design Days allowed me to integrate knowledge 91% 91% from across my ECE courses. (Likert) ECE Design Days was well-aligned with the content of 79% 83% my ECE courses. (Likert) I learned something new during ECE Design Days. 97% 91% (Likert) I enjoyed how the event became more and more open- 88% 82% ended. (Likert) Five years from now, I will likely recall ECE Design 89% 91% Days as being: (Positive/Negative) I think that future 1B students should participate in 98% 91% something like ECE Design Days. (Likert)Table 2 Anecdotal feedback on ECE Design Days Student comments I will remember being
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ETS1.B: Developing Possible SolutionsOptimization IMP Students identify one or more feature(s) to ETS1.C: Optimizing the improve upon Design Solution REDES Students redesignData analysisObservation data were analyzed using event mapping of core instructional practices across timeand design task (see Figure 1). Data timelines offered a visual comparison of the range ofactivities over time as well as the approximate length of each. Segments of data for eachclassroom event map were classified and labeled based on explicit engineering design phasesexpressed in the
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, 2006; Heppner, Wampold, & Kivlighan, 2008; Strauss, 1987).S(Braun & Clarke, 2006; Heppner et al., 2008) specifically, responses were analyzed usingthematic analysis with a constructivist, latent approach, with respect to six steps: familiarizationwith the data; initial line by line coding; collating into potential themes; identifying &explicating themes; revision of themes based on the data as a whole and the naming of thethemes; and producing a report with extracts of data relating the analysis to the researchquestions and existing literature. Each sentence in the responses were analyzed using descriptiveemergent codes. Following our methodology, themes were identified from the data rather thancreated based on a priori theory or
exam questions. To determine the similarity of the SS1 and SS2’s exams in terms of difficulty, we firstclassified the questions from the four exams (two midterms and two finals) into five topicalgroups. These kinds of problems were tested on each exam in each iteration of the class. We thenrandomly sampled the questions in each group, selecting 23 questions in total. We asked severalfaculty members from the Engineering Department to use their expert opinions on the difficultyof each question without identifying which class or exam the questions originated. We wouldthen ask the experts to discuss the questions to evaluate the difficulty of each question and cometo a consensus, assigning each question a score of 1-5.1 – Not at all