.” Influences on Attitudes towards STEM. It is important to understand students’perspectives of learning STEM subjects. As they expressed, math was a big challenge for them,because it was related to science, engineering, and other STEM subjects. The concepts andproblems in math (e.g. algebra and fractions) were difficult to understand and were lessinteresting than other subjects. While, in science learning, students had troubles to comprehendthe concepts, integrate the knowledge, and solve complicated problems. However, studentsbelieved their capabilities to get good grades and push forward in math and science learning. After participating in two-weeks STEAM camp, students indicated the cooperativelearning environment was an important factor
IPEDS(Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) standards, we use the 6-year point toinvestigate outcomes and only include students for whom six calendar years of data aftermatriculation are available. Including all the data for each student would bias the results in favorof earlier cohorts who have had more time to return and using a longer window would eliminatethe more recent cohorts from the study. There are several groups of students for whom the 6-yearpoint is not an accurate representation of their final educational outcome: those who arecontinuing at year 6, but eventually drop out (we know of 58 in engineering and 24 in othermajors), and those who have stopped out in year 6 but later returned (we know of 145 whoreturned to
the integration of active learning and technology-enabled frequent feedback. Prior to her role and Director of Instructional Effectiveness, she worked as the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty development program, as a high school math and science teach teacher, and as an Assistant Principal and Instructional & Curriculum Coach.Prof. Robert J. Culbertson, Arizona State University Robert J. Culbertson is an Associate Professor of Physics. Currently, he teaches introductory mechanics and electrodynamics for physics majors and a course in musical acoustics, which was specifically de- signed for elementary education majors. He is director of the ASU Physics Teacher Education Coalition
Engineering at Cornell UniversityDr. Stacey E. Kulesza, Kansas State University Dr. Stacey Kulesza is an assistant professor in the civil engineering department at Kansas State University. Dr. Kulesza teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in geotechnical engineering and is a licensed engineer in the state of Kansas. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 We are thriving! Undergraduate women in engineering student project teamsAbstractFor more than two decades, female participation in undergraduate engineering programs hasremained stuck at 20%. The research focus has been on women who either choose not to enrollor withdraw. We propose a change in
curriculum than any individual factor.First-year college performance and subsequent retention and successSimilar to how a student’s high school achievement and experiences may be indicative of theirfirst-year success, first-semester GPA also has been found to correlate with retention and GPA atgraduation. Students with low grades at the start of their undergraduate studies have been shownto be less likely to be retained within an institution of higher education [4]. For example, a studyconducted at the University of Alabama reported a 48% higher graduation rate for students whohad a first-semester GPA higher than 3.00 compared to those with a first-semester GPA less than2.25 [6]. Raju and Schumacker [6] found that first-semester GPA in college along
Paper ID #26971Beyond the Means – Visualizing Learner Activity and Outcomes for OnlineInstructorsMr. Taylor V. Williams, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Taylor Williams is a Ph.D. student in Purdue’s school of engineering education. He is currently on an academic leave from his role as an instructor of engineering at Harding University. While at Harding he taught undergraduate biomedical, computer, and first-year engineering. Taylor also spent time working in industry as a systems engineer. Taylor received his master’s in biomedical engineering from Tufts Univer- sity and his
tools and e-books focus on a singlesubject with multiple modules explaining each case, requiring vast amount of effort from an expertto create such modules. As a result, the static information is unable to operate optimally in newenvironments, because the system is unable to adapt uniquely to each students’ learning behaviorsand teachers’ input. Thus, to overcome this issue, the DIME system integrates modern machinelearning techniques, which allow the graphical display of information to adapt automatically basedon external and internal feedback.The way the DIME system responds to these two types of feedback differentiates it from previoussystems. Internal feedback refers to the students’ physical interaction with the DIME map, such asclicking
integrity vulnerabilities in classeswith online components. It uses lockdown proctored biweekly quiz/exam which avoids integrityvulnerabilities common to online delivery methods. Since multiple choice can be restrictive,students’ hand-written scratch worksheets composed during assessment are scanned-in. This isfurther explained herein within the Proctored Assessment Component in Section 6 of this paper.3.8 Activity 8: Score Clarification to Foster MetacognitionScore Clarification is a technique that motivates learners in a quest for partial credit to explainthe problem-solving flow that they used in their formative assessment submissions fromscanned-in scratch sheets. These elicit an explanation of the solution in their own words withfirst-line
programming languages like Haskelland Ada. The complexity of hardware descriptions coupled with HDL similarities to sequentialprogramming languages has led the authors to propose the idea of introducing LP into HDLeducation. Using LP to improve HDL education has not been widely investigated. One earlyattempt involved an approach very similar to Knuth’s WEB approach [18][19] using a Prologlogic program to generate a human-readable form and a Verilog HDL file. The main thrust ofthis effort was to capture the formal operational semantics of the description and animate thebehavior of parallelisms. The approach taken in [18] and [19] will clearly suffer from the failingsof Knuth’s efforts with regard to a maintainability, tool-chain integration, and user
Paper ID #25597How Faculty Advisers and Counselors View their Role in the SWE Organiza-tionDr. Alexa Rihana Abdallah, University of Detroit Mercy Alexa Rihana Abdallah is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Detroit Mercy. She earned both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan.Dr. Diane L. Peters, Kettering University Dr. Peters is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Peters teaches courses in the dynamic systems and controls area, and is faculty advisor to the SAE/GM AutoDrive Challenge
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Robots at Your Service: An Entrepreneurial and Socio-Technical ACL Course ModuleAbstractThe advancement of robotics technology in recent years, coupled with AI and big data, helpedushering in the era of service robotics, where robots are no longer used in factory automationonly but in close proximity and interaction with humans as assistants. The significant interests inhumanoid robots and driverless cars exemplify this development trend. While courses onrobotics have found their way into Mechanical Engineering curriculum, they are typicallyoffered as electives and tend to be technically centric, not much time being afforded to addressthe social and
the experiences of minoritized students in deciding whether to persistin their studies or not. The model also considers the multi-level systems that affect students, e.g.institutional characteristics, the curriculum and co-curriculum, and off-campus obligations [18].The model organizes the influence of student experiences in college on retention in temporalorder, from pre-college and external factors, through commitments to a particular institution andexperiences at that institution, leading to intermediate outcomes that shape final commitments toan institution and the decision to reenroll [14]. This study uses this model to conceptualizestudents’ commitment and decision to reenroll in an engineering program. A primary motivationguiding
, interconnectivity and integration [1]. SystemsThinking (ST) is considered an active framework to better manage complex system problemdomains. It focuses on how the constituent parts of a system pertain to the whole system and theway the systems work within larger systems over time. This holistic approach contrasts with thetraditional analysis whose aim is to study the individual pieces of a system separately. Bloom etal. [2] and Anderson et al. [3] established a taxonomy whose aim is to classify educationalobjectives in a hierarchy from less to more complex. Bloom’s taxonomy was revised later byAnderson and his colleagues to fit modern education objectives. Stave and Hopper [4] and Hopperand Stave [5] offered a system parallel to Bloom’s taxonomy of
exploration of: 1) race, gender, and identity and 2) computer science education research in order to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields.Jasmine Skye Batten, Florida International University Jasmine Batten is an undergraduate computer science education researcher whose goal is to earn her PhD in computer science and become a professor. She is interested in improving women’s retention in com- puter science by researching different pedagogical techniques including active learning and gamification and their effects on women. She will graduate from Florida International University in August 2019 with her BS in computer science
work.BackgroundFor several years, the United States (U.S.) federal government and other national entities haveexpressed the significant need for an increase in the highly skilled STEM workforce. Non–profitorganizations and companies have addressed this call to action by developing co–curricular andextra–curricular opportunities for students. Many targeted early learning stages, with thedevelopment of outreach activities, after–school programs, and summer camps, in an effort toincrease the post-secondary pipeline with prospective low-income and underrepresentedstudents. Some of these efforts have generated positive outcomes, including the implementationof CS curriculum. Several focused on creating spaces for underrepresented student populations,in an effort
of RWTH Aachen University. Her research focuses on innovations in engineering education as well as learning organizations.Dr. Frank Hees, Cybernetics Lab IMA & IfUProf. Ingrid Isenhardt c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Effects of Collaborative Augmented Reality on Communication and Interaction in Learning Contexts – Results of a Qualitative Pre-StudyAbstractModern digital technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) are assumed to foster the learningprocess due to their hands-on nature. AR has the advantage of visualising processes, objectsor data and information that would under regular circumstances not be visible or perceptiblefor the user, since it integrates virtual objects into
Paper ID #26639Using Natural Language Processing Tools on Individual Stories from FirstYear Students to Summarize Emotions, Sentiments and Concerns of Transi-tion from High School to CollegeDr. Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology Dr. Ashwin Satyanarayana is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Systems Technology, New York City College of Technology (CUNY). Prior to this, Dr. Satyanarayana was a Re- search Scientist at Microsoft in Seattle from 2006 to 2012, where he worked on several Big Data problems including Query Reformulation on Microsoft’s search engine Bing. He holds
Paper ID #26333Intended and Unintended Consequences of Rapidly Expanding an Engineer-ing Mathematics Intervention for Incoming First-Year StudentsDr. Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a researcher and instructor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on ways to encourage more students, especially women and those from nontraditional demographic groups, to pursue interests in the eld of engineering. Janet assists in recruitment and retention efforts locally, nationally, and internationally, hoping to broaden the image of
matters.Another theme identified in both sets of data was the exploration of and importance ofpedagogical innovation toward changing mindsets and cultures, specifically as a way to criticallyengage and reflect on the values and ethics embedded in technology as well as educationaldesign. For engineering educators, this arose most often as an issue in the curriculum – thesiloing of engineering coursework from ethics or social responsibility explorations in science andtechnology studies classrooms. Participants identified the success of integration, such asproblem-based work that had students engage real-world problems with dire consequences, or (inlieu of such examples) shared aspirations to achieve integration of ethics and socialresponsibility into the
on the fundamental concepts of thermal systems design andanalysis is possible with the introduction of system modelling software that carries some of theload of repetitive calculation required for complex systems. Models of thermodynamic systemsencountered in an advanced undergraduate thermodynamics course were developed by students(some provided to students) to solve homework problems of complex steam power plants,internal combustion engines, gas turbine power plants, refrigeration, and building energysystems. Computer modelling systems used included two commercial modelling programs, anopen source program, and systems developed by the authors. Use of the modelling softwareforced students to setup problems in the same way as if solved on
Paper ID #27682Minority Serving Institutions: America’s Underutilized Resource for Strength-ening the STEM Workforce Report – Implications for Historically Black Col-leges and Universities (HBCUs)Dr. Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University Dr. Fletcher is currently an Assistant Professor at Florida International University. Her research focus includes people of color and women in STEM and quality in K-12 and higher education. Prior to FIU, Dr. Fletcher served as the Senior Manager for the Summer Engineering Experience of Kids (SEEK) program and the Director of Pre-college Programs for NSBE. Additionally, she
Paper ID #26662Board 106: Did Math Make Me Move? The Design and Initial Evaluation ofa Culturally Appropriate Gestural Educational Technology (Research)Ms. Tiffanie R. Smith, University of Florida Tiffanie R. Smith is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Florida studying Human Centered Comput- ing in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. She received her B.S. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University in 2013. She is an NSF Graduate Re- search Fellow as well as a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow. Her research interests include educational technologies
City, UT. 2018.[5] K. Talbot, “Using Arduino to Design a Myoelectric Prosthetic,” 2014. [Online]. Available: http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/honors_theses/55/ [Accessed Jan. 10, 2019].[6] worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/spokane-population/ [Accessed Feb. 1, 2019].[7] M. Yim, et. al., “A practice-integrated undergraduate curriculum in Mechanical Engineering,” in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, Pittsburgh, PA. 2008.
trending areas that could be ofconcern.Cybersecurity is an inter-disciplinary field that encompass a large number of subject areas that must be taught and learnt.Overtime, the number of topics that must be taught to students has grown, while the number of hours in the curriculum remainedthe same. This dynamic means educators must choose what topic areas they must focus on based on its importance and relevancein the always changing security landscape. Being able to see the topic areas that are important during a specific time period canhelp educators focus on these topics in their courses, helping them focus on the areas that are currently trending and important inthe security field. The methods used in the word and hashtags analysis can be used to
innovation processes, through studying experi- ences of individuals and teams that lead to innovative thinking and through integrating that knowledge into organizational change. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 An Exploration of Course Design Heuristics Identified from Design Meetings, Design Artifacts, and Educator InterviewsIntroductionThis research paper investigates differences between course design heuristics used in engineeringthat have been identified from three distinct data sources: course design meetings, course designpapers, and educator interviews. Heuristics are used in the daily practice of many diversedisciplines, including industrial design [1], orienteering
Paper ID #25483A Study of an Augmented Reality App for the Development of Spatial Rea-soning AbilityDr. John E. Bell, Michigan State University JOHN BELL Professor, Educational Technology, College of Education. John Bell earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University, and then his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research considered various user interfaces for human- computer interaction among users with a wide range of technology skills. Bell later completed a post doc at UC Berkeley focused on teaching programming to non-computer science majors, and
decreased during the semester because they had a group discussion about theimportance of diversity in teams. Working in diverse teams also increased the teamworkskills of students. However, there were some significant negative changes in the opinions ofstudents about including diversity in an engineering curriculum or teaching diversity byuniversity professors. Also, students did not have the motivation to combat racial bias whereit existed in teams.Fila and Purzer [24] investigated whether gender diversity adds the number of creativesolutions in design team projects. They found that gender-balanced teams did not have morecreativity for developing design proposals comparing to all-male teams. But, gender-balancedteams that found more possible
Paper ID #25537Development of an Ethics Survey Based on the Four-domain DevelopmentDiagramDr. Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc. Dr. Canney conducts research focused on engineering education, specifically the development of social responsibility in engineering students. Other areas of interest include ethics, service learning, and sus- tainability education. Dr. Canney received bachelors degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Seattle University, a masters in Civil Engineering from Stanford University with an emphasis on structural engineering, and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of
as these relate to developing clinical methods to facilitate more effective and cost-efficient motor practice. She is especially interested in integrating the use of technology into rehabilitation for neurologically impaired populations. Her work includes using various commercial video gaming technologies to improve upper extremity function as well as balance. She is also investigating the use of harness systems in balance training and moving this training out of the lab and into a community garden.Dr. Debbie K. Jackson, Cleveland State University Dr. Debbie K. Jackson is an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Services at Cleveland State University. Dr. Jackson taught chemistry, physics, and
Paper ID #26956Designing a Laboratory Ecosystem Framework, and Scaffolding an Interac-tive Internal Combustion EngineDr. David MacNair, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. MacNair serves as Director of Laboratory Development in the Woodruff School, and manages Junior and Senior level laboratories in Mechanical Engineering. He develops innovative laboratory experiences based on lessons-learned from the maker movement and real-world industrial challenges, and is building an ”ecosystem” of academic laboratory equipment and curriculum resources which allows universities to collaborate on the development and execution of