science instructors make use of pedagogical strategies thathelp students improve their understanding of programming concepts and become betterprogrammers. One such tool that implements these strategies through a cyber-learning platformthat incorporates an array of learning engagement strategies (e.g., collaboration, socialnetworking, gamification), is SEP-CyLE.SEP-CyLE attempts to overcome these technical and retention issues in three main ways. First, itbreaks large concepts like software programming and testing concepts into smaller learningobjects providing a less overwhelming experience for students. Second, integrated learning andengagement strategies show that software testing and other foundational programming conceptsare relevant. Finally
enable students to discuss their Wearable Technology projectand think about how to program the project so it will be successful.Project-Based Learning The Femineer® Program encourages students to engage with the curriculum in a hands-oncapacity. Hands-on learning helps students process abstract concepts while connecting them to thedesired educational outcomes [6]. Using a hands-on approach can help foster 21st century skillsand enhance student achievement [7]. Hands-on learning is an integral part of the Femineer®Program. The Femineer® curriculum is based upon a 30-hour project that students completethroughout the year. With project-based learning, the instructional approach empowers students towork collaboratively to solve a complex
supports a “deficit” model ofunderstanding FGCS;(2) differences in behavior of FGCS and CGCS while in the College of Engineering, in terms ofparticipation in both engineering-related and university-wide extra-curricular activities at theCollege and University level which are typically associated with greater integration into theCollege and facilitate identification with the major and subsequent retention;(3) perceived feelings of self-confidence as an engineering student, which is associated withretention and commitment;1 The researchers adapted questions about personal perceptions of the culture of diversity fromVu et. al. [12] who based their survey on Helm et al. [13] the research team expanded thequestions to cover other visible and
detection and manipulation of various cell types. One application in particular was to design an electrically-driven cell focusing microfluidic device to be used in conjunction with an optical waveguide for environmental-based applications. Although, she has held a number of positions in industry with companies such as: Dow Corning, Johns Manville and Hospira, her passion lies in teaching, mentoring undergraduate students and promoting excellence in education for engineers.Mr. David Bowles, Louisiana State University David ”Boz” Bowles is an Assistant Director of Academic Affairs for the College of Engineering, where he coordinates the Communications Across the Curriculum program for the College. He also manages the
traditional disciplines, including engineering and physical sciences,to perform research focused on the micro to macro-level fabrication and regeneration of tissues.While this field has continued to grow since the 1970’s [6], it faces challenges shared by otherinterdisciplinary fields when trying to develop and implement curriculum for interdisciplinaryprograms.Rapid growth in interdisciplinary fields and subsequently interdisciplinary academic programshas created programs with ill-defined disciplinary skills for students graduating from thoseprograms [7]. As a result, interdisciplinary engineering program graduates regularly pursuecareers outside of traditional engineering jobs [8], often making career trajectories unclear aftergraduation [9]. In an
Concepts to Harness Future Innovators and Technologists) project. Since September 2016, she co-leads the NSF STEM+C project, Curriculum and Assessment Design to Study the Development of Motivation and Computational Thinking for Middle School Students across Three Learning Contexts, that builds on TECHFIT. Professor Harriger’s current interests include outreach to K-12 to interest more students to pursue computing careers, applying IT skills to innovating fitness tools, and wearable computing.Arjun Shakdher, Purdue University Arjun Shakdher is currently a graduate student in the department of Computer and Information Tech- nology at Purdue University. He has been working as a Graduate Research Assistant since 2017 on an
, 2009.[27] Padir, T., Gennert, M.A., Fischer, G., Michalson, W.R. & Cobb, E.C., 2010, “Implementation of an undergraduate robotics engineering curriculum”, Computers in Education Journal, Vo. 1, No. 3, pp. 92-101.[28] http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~ctc27/tenkey.html, accessed in January, 2019.[29] Chang, Y., Aziz, E.-S., Zhang, Z., Zhang, M. & Esche, S. K., 2016, “Usability evaluation of a virtual educational laboratory platform”, Computers in Education Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 24-36.[30] Chang, Y., Aziz, E.-S., Zhang, Z., Zhang, M., Esche, S. K. & Chassapis, C., 2014, “A platform for mechanical assembly education using the Microsoft Kinect”, Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical
Paper ID #25688A Mixed Methods Analysis of Goals and the Impact of Peer Mentoring forParticipants in the WISE Honors ProgramDr. Jennifer A Gatz, Stony Brook University Public STEM education teacher of AP Biology and AP Research for Patchogue-Medford School District. Ph.D. in Science Education from Stonybrook University, 2017. Research affiliate at Stony Brook Univer- sity’s Institute for STEM education evaluating persistence, motivation, social and academic integration of women in science and engineering at the undergraduate level.Dr. Angela M. Kelly, Stony Brook University Angela M. Kelly is an Associate Professor of
registered into all four of these courses, thusestablishing a cohort. This cohort was comprised of random students, without regard to theirdegree plan, placement tests, etc. All other first semester students were enrolled in thetraditional non-cohort curriculum. About a month prior to the start of the semester, each of theinstructors (MATH, PSYC, CSCI, and ENGL), and the IFYEP project coordinator (Dr. Mattes)attended several meetings (roughly 6 hours total) to establish a sequence of weekly topics thatwould easily allow for subject integration across the courses. An example of a weekly themethreading through the four core courses is illustrated in Fig. 1, along with an indication of howadditional major-specific first-semester courses could be
. He is integrally involved in the design and delivery of the Pre-Freshman and Cooperative Education Program and others of that ilk at OSU, as a part of his specific interest in soft skill development, diversity, recruitment and retention initiatives.Mr. Nicholas Rees Sattele, Ohio State University Nicholas is an Undergraduate Research Associate with The Ohio State Department of Engineering Ed- ucation. He is in the process of completing a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering in the In- tegrated Business and Engineering Honors Program at Ohio State. His interests include incorporating Entrepreneurial Minded Learning into engineering coursework and interdisciplinary innovation. c
Technology Officer, at UT Brownsville, he implemented state of the art networking using campus wide fiber ring with redundant links. He established diskless computer labs to provide uniform computing platform across campus, and modernized classrooms to make them congenial to online learning. He was the PI on NSF funded BCEIL (Beowulf-based Curriculum Enrichment Integrated Laboratory) and Co-PI on NSF funded MCALL (Multimedia based Computer Assisted Learning Lab).Dr. Hansheng Lei c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Holistic Approach for Enhancing Distributed Education with Multi-Campus Course Delivery MethodsAbstractTo create an emerging teaching and
, programming, communication (including written, oral, and graphical),3D printing, and an introduction to engineering research. The culminating feature of this courseis a final project, called the Cornerstone Project, which includes the construction, optimization,and mechanical design of a windmill system. This system includes the integration of student-built AC motors, DC motors, and data acquisition systems that students use to discernquantifiable results for their windmill, such as efficiencies, power output, and windmill speed –accomplished via the construction of a tachometer, which the students design and build.The first implementation of this course was in Spring 2017, in which the programming aspects ofthe Cornerstone Project were executed
are faculty led and short term are seen as one of the majorvehicles for students to integrate an international experience in their curriculum. The opposite istrue for the NYC LSAMP model, which consists of 8 weeks or more of research. A summary ofthe program elements at each university site is shown in Table 2. The eleven core elements of theprogram all contribute to the success of the programming per each site. A total of nine site coordinators for the Netherlands (1), China (1), Morocco (1) andColombia (6) sites were engaged, all were participants in the NYC LSAMP, and need not havefluency in the language of the host country. Only for the program in Cartagena that involved themanagement of both Colombian and American students, was
representation of woman in the STEM field, k-12 engineering education and computational thinking. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Design Decision Processes of First Grade Students during an Engineering Design Based STEM Unit (Fundamental)Introduction Currently, there is an effort to bring engineering as a part of the curriculum into earlyelementary classrooms. For this purpose, academic science standards have incorporatedengineering design in the pre-college curriculum [1]. According to the NGSS standards for K-2engineering design, the aim of implementing a STEM curriculum is that children be able to askquestions and define problems that build on their prior experiences and develop models
Paper ID #25749Board 47: Year 2 of an S-STEM Summer Scholarship for a Sophomore BridgeProgramDr. Katie Evans, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Katie Evans is the Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives, the Entergy Corp LP&L/NOPSI #3 & #4 Professor of Mathematics, the Academic Director of Mathematics and Statistics and Online programs, and the Director of the Integrated STEM Education Research Center (ISERC). She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics and M.S. in Mathematics at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Her research interests in- clude distributed parameter control modeling and simulation, dynamic modeling of physical
knowledge retention thanthey had prior to training. While deployment of retrieval strategies in the classroom has beenrequired of all participants, those who attended additional training in the summers (N=68) havealso conducted Action Research to measure the effect of new strategies on learning. Theseteachers randomly selected control and target student groups within the same school, grade andcourse environment. They also self-selected an area of content within their respective sciencedisciplines or mathematics curriculum and created two different retrieval practices – a blockedpractice that examines student knowledge and skills for applying a certain method to the solutionof various questions on only one topic or type, and the interleaved practice
explain the concepts, for thefollowing reasons. Dell Visor can be plugged into any PC and desktop that is able to run windows 10.However, an adapter and dongle are needed to properly have the system run with a desktop. Theadaptor has to a Mini display port to HDMI video adaptor converter; we choose this also, because itneeds to be able to support 4K. The dongle is a Bluetooth 4.0 LE + EDR to plug into a USB port; thisis needed if the computer does not have built in Bluetooth.This system can be used to facilitate CG instruction through interactive learning exercisesand active learning in Engineering and Technology curriculum. In addition, students in variousET disciplines can use this framework to apply CG concepts in their discipline
strong components of the program. Overall, 39% of the scholars were transfers from2-year local community colleges [4]. Results also indicate that faculty mentoring, monetarysupport, and an integration of research into education played strong roles in student retention andpost-graduation placement. The overall retention rate in 2017 was 88%. Through March 2017, 49scholars (58%) completed the BS degree in ME with an average GPA at graduation of 3.53/4.0,27% of them are pursuing graduate degrees in a STEM major, 67% of them are now working ina STEM industry. The program was built from both best practices in research and lessons learned fromprevious years from the grant [2][3]. Specifically, a S-STEM scholar will be connected to facultymentor
about“people” an act of giving significance to the story in the context of participating in the program.Across the interviews, every girl described her interest in making and all but one described activeinvolvement in different modes of making. Some of the girls described making at homefollowing specific YouTube channels or as a mutual interest with a family member. For others,making was an integral part of their school as they participated in maker classes or followed atrack in school. Eight girls described a specific STEM discipline as one of their career options.Half of the girls who came to the program described learning about the program from asupportive teacher who encouraged them in pursuing their interest in making.At the same time
with the IMSE department’s curriculum committee andfaculty will ensue.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge Iowa State University’s Miller Faculty Fellowshipprogram, the John Deere Foundation, and the Iowa Space Grant Consortium for providing thefunding necessary to implement and assess the impact of this pedagogy in an industrialengineering curriculum.References[1] Yoder, B.L., “Engineering by the Numbers,” www.asee.org/colleges, accessed 03FEB19.[2] Lichtenstein, H.L. Chen, K.A. Smith, and T.A. Maldonado, “Chapter 16 – Retention andPersistence of Women and Minorities Along the Engineering Pathway in the United States,”2013, Cambridge Handbook of Engineering education Research, pp.311-334.[3] US Bureau of Labor and Statistics
. Turner, and G. Gushue, “Testing an integrative contextual career development model with adolsescents from high-poverty urban areas,” Career Development Quarterly, vol. 66, pp. 220-232, Sep. 2018.[21] E. H. McWhirter, et al., “Perceived barriers and postsecondary plans in Mexican American and White adolescents,” Journal of Career Assessment, vol. 15, pp. 119-138, Feb. 2007.[22] E. H. McWhirter, G. Hackett, and D. L. Bandalos, “A casual model of the educational plans and career expectations of Mexican-American high school girls,” Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 166-181, Apr. 1998.[23] S. L. Turner, “Preparing inner-city adolescents to transition into high school,” Professional
provide easy access to any practical experienceas the gap between current hardware solutions and basic implementation of operating systemprocesses is too large for undergraduate students. Additionally, the number of students attendingthis course increases constantly, such that currently more than 800 students visit our course, weare not able to provide individual feedback to every person. Thus, we aim to create an interactivesimulation framework (SysprogInteract), which can be easily integrated into the educationprocess and fulfill the student's expectations on a modern, digitized education. In such senseSysprogInteract delivers the opportunity to involve a large student number into practicalcomputer system programming as automated feedback is
running programs entirely on their computer.Instructional StrategiesThese labs can be implemented in various classroom settings. They provide ideas for teachers as wellas flexible applications. Each lab includes ways of tuning the complexity and difficulty of each activity,depending on the students being taught and the lesson time frame. We focused heavily on creating 3labs that could be easily integrated into current curriculum and supplement existing lesson plans. Thismakes teaching Computer Science principles less demanding and much more attainable. Participants were more engaged when labs started slow and worked up incrementally to more com-plex ideas. Before starting the labs, we
Leadership Development using an Interdisciplinary Competition-based Approach with Cross-functional TeamsAbstractThis paper presents results of an effort to employ an experiential learning program, known as theEcoChallenge, using cross-functional teams to address a “real-world” sustainability issue to aidin the development of leadership skills of undergraduate engineering students. While experientiallearning has been demonstrated to be an effective tool for leadership development, integration ofdisciplines outside of engineering at the undergraduate level, specifically business majors, incross-functional teams has presented logistical, assessment, and educational challenges in a classsetting. The lack of such integrated educational
preparation needed to successfully pursue tenure-track faculty positions. A centralcomponent of the PFMF program consisted of an integrated view of the roles of a professionalacademic career through three key areas: 1) hands-on mentoring, 2) structured teachingexperiences and 3) evidenced-based professional development. Figure 1 provides a conceptualframework for linking the program activity inputs with the intended outcomes. The followingsection details the components of this integrated model. Preparing Future Minority Faculty in STEM (PFMF) INPUTS OUTCOMESFigure 1. Model for PFMF success.1) Hands-On MentoringDuring the
assessment questions that include the skilltags dimensional analysis and system integration. To begin to place roughness into someappropriate context, the descriptor of “Specialist” or “Specialized” are used. These descriptorswould indicate that the given student has very strong talents in a few specific skills at theexpense of proficiency in other skills. Figure 3B represents the student with the largest averagecircular radius value, which means that that student has the highest level of average proficiencyacross all skill tag questions compared to the class. Though this student does not represent thelowest roughness value, when compared to others this student can be considered fairly “well-rounded”. A well-rounded profile may be likened to an
Paper ID #27451”Ingeniero como vos”: An analysis of the Mby´a-Guaran´ı Practices Associ-ated with Engineering DesignDr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an assistant professor of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. His current research investigates how the integration of the historically and culturally accumulated wealth of knowledge, skills, and practices - also known as funds of knowledge - and engineering design can serve as a pathway to and through engineering. Dr. Mejia is particularly interested in how Latinx adolescents bring forth unique ways of
. Bodnar, Rowan University Cheryl A. Bodnar, Ph.D., CTDP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the incorporation of active learn- ing techniques in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on student perception of the classroom environment, motivation and learning outcomes. She obtained her certifica- tion as a Training and Development Professional (CTDP) from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) in 2010, providing her with a solid background in
equitable STEM experiences. Such a requirement could foster an interestin STEM subjects and careers in more, diverse students, while reducing the focus on STEMpipelines. This would parallel the situation in some other countries where the college track requiresall students to follow the same curriculum, regardless of gender. In another way, it would alignwith education in the humanities and social sciences where the focus is not explicitly on careersand pipelines, but on knowledge. Harvey Mudd College has had success in reaching gender parityin computer sciences by starting first year students at the same place, making certain that all takeIntroduction to Computer Science, thereby eliminating the effect of women feeling less preparedbecause of prior
curriculums. In this case, we have created the skeleton for a framework that allows the user/instructor to navigate menus to change values for different measurement nodes on different pieces of equipment to emulate different scenarios (Figure 6). The end result is an outputted spreadsheet that can be loaded into the software to reproduce your desired scenario. At the end of the project, this will allow instructors to continue to use the simulator in new ways that were never even considered during the design process. Figure 6: Custom Scenario BuilderCurrent Development AreasRight now, there are two aspects that are being looked at for current feature development toenhance the troubleshooting of the simulator