students’ weaknesses and strengths in domain knowledge [16].Instructors can assess students at earlier time points in a course, to identify potential areas ofweakness that can be addressed throughout the remainder of the instruction. In order toassess student learning, either formatively or summatively, an instructor needs to select anappropriate scoring method(s) for the concept maps. Several quantitative and qualitativescoring methods have been developed and applied to engineering students’ concept maps,with each taking a different approach to capturing a map’s complexity. Concept map scoringmethods typically include measures of conceptual depth, breadth, and connectedness [19].A concept map can be used before the start of a course to assist
average score earned). All statistical analyses were conducted usingIBM SPSS 25.The inter-rater reliability between the coders measured using Cohen’s kappa and is shown inTable 3. The two values in each cell of the table represent the reliability for the pre-interviews(left) and post-interviews (right). Agreement between Coders 1, 2, and 4 ranges from roughly“moderate” to “strong,” while agreement with Coder 3 is “minimal” to “weak” [32]. However,unless otherwise noted, Coder 3’s ratings are included in the aggregate results that follow as theeffect of removing Coder 3 is inconsequential, as will be shown.Table 3. Inter-rater reliability: Cohen's kappa for the four coders for pre / post interviews Coder 2
mechanicalengineers. Future research will expand this to other engineering disciplines.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.EEC 1751369. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] J. F. Hair, W. C. Black, B. J. Babin, R. E. Anderson, and R. L. Tatham, Multivariate data analysis. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.[2] Z. S. Roth, H. Zhuang, V. Ungvichian, and A. Zilouchian, "Integrating Design into the Entire Electrical Engineering Four Year Experience."[3] B. I. Hyman, "From capstone to cornerstone
placement scores of Group 1 unexpectedly decreased, which pose a new and interesting research question on the value of motivation that will be further studied and discussed separately. Group 1 and 3 are excluded from the analysis of the Engineering Summer Bridge results. ALEKS Math Semester(s) of No. of Students GPA Math SAT Fall 2019 Placement recommended Placement Pre- Pre- Post
. Retrieved from Washington, DC:Brubaker, E. R., Kohn, M., & Sheppard, S. (2019). Comparing outcomes of introductory makerspaces courses: The role of reflection and multi-age communities of practice. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces, New Haven, CT.Carbonell, R. M., & Andrews, M. E., & Boklage, A., & Borrego, M. J. (2019, June), Innovation, Design, and Self-Efficacy: The Impact of Makerspaces Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida. https://peer.asee.org/32965Charmaz, K. (2006). Constructing grounded theory: A practical guide through qualitative analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.Fasso, W., & Knight, B. A. (2019
Recovery Dismantle & Remanufactur OEM e Reuse Retail/Service Provider Maintain/ Prolong User s Collection End of Life Landfill Incineration (with or without energy recovery)Figure 1
identify motivations for and barriers to changes in resource use, Survey 3 also askedparticipants, “Have you changed the amount of times you used any of the following courseresources during the past three weeks? For the course resources that have changed, state thereason for the change.” Participants were provided a text box to type a written description oftheir reason(s) for changing resource(s) use.Exam Scores. Participant performance was measured using exam scores provided by theinstructor at the end of the course. Two midterm exams and one final exam were administered inclass by the primary instructor during the 15-week semester (Figure 1). Week 2: Week 4: Week 5: Week 7: Week 8: Survey 1
apair of dilemmas include Dilemma 2 does the pair have a highly significant relationship; anyother compared pairs were found to be not significant. This result shows that there weresignificantly more Can’t Decide responses to Dilemma 2 as opposed to Option A or B responseswhen compared to other dilemmas in the EPSRI. When seeking to explain why this takes place,we can look at a summary of Dilemma 2’s prompt for insight: The second dilemma in the EPSRI places the students into the position of a plant engineer at a chemical company in the suburbs of a major city. There’s a severe hurricane heading towards the plant, and if the plant floods, there is the possibility of extreme hazardous events such as an explosion. It is
Colleges, 1982.[7] I.H. Settles, L.M. Cortina, J. Malley, A.J. Stewart, “The climate for women in academic science: The good, the bad, and the changeable,” Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30(1), 2006, 47-58.[8] C.L. Maranto, A.E. Griffin, “The antecedents of a ‘chilly climate’ for women faculty in higher education,” Human Relations, 64(2), 2011, 139-159.[9] L. Howe-Walsh, S. Turnbull, “Barriers to women leaders in academia: Tales from science and technology,” Studies in Higher Education, 41(3), 2016, 415-428.[10] K.N. Miner, S.C. January, K.K. Dray, A.R. Carter-Sowell, “Is it always this cold? Chilly interpersonal climates as a barrier to the well-being of early-career women faculty in STEM,” Equality
theoretical data.In addition to enduring outcomes (Table 2) and the important-to-know topics (Table 3), the labactivities also promote “good-to-be-familiar with” topics as follows: Students are expected tolearn and demonstrate the following topics throughout all six labs: Teamwork, report writing,and communication. If we, for instance, take modeling as an example, being able to modelconstitutes an important and direct predictor of conceptual understanding of often-complicatedengineering topics, such as heat transfer [42]. To sum up on these “good-to-be-familiar with”topics, they are covered in all labs (Labs #1–#6) and will become a part of necessary skills as apracticing engineer in the future no matter what field of engineering s/he choose to
0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 Final 2 4 4 0 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 Final 3 2 4 4 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 Final 4 0 4 2 0 0 0 2 2 3 4 4 0 4 0 4 Total 32 32 18 28 24 25 23 15 14 20 21 36 16 12 41 C. Free-body Diagrams. Construct accurate and complete Free-Body Diagram(s) (FBD). Treat distributed forces (e.g., pressure and weight) and point
design.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank Rex Hartson and Doug Bowman for their influence in theoriginal course design and guidance throughout. We also express our appreciation to thestudents who contributed to the development of this research study. Finally, many thanks toLindsay Wheeler for her guidance and reviewing of this work.References[1] J. Pirker, M. Riffnaller-Schiefer, and C. Gütl, “Motivational active learning - Engaging university students in computer science education,” in ITICSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference, 2014, pp. 297–302.[2] B. Simon, S. Esper, L. Porter, and Q. Cutts, “Student experience in a student-centered peer instruction
-91, 2014.[2] A. McKenna, R. Linsenmeier, and M. Glucksberg, "Characterizing computational adaptive expertise," in 2008 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2008.[3] J. S. Zawojewski, H. A. Diefes-Dux, and K. J. Bowman, Models and modeling in engineering education: Designing experiences for all students. Sense Publishers, 2008.[4] J. M. Wing, "Computationalthinking," in Communications of the ACM, vol. 49, no. 3, p. 33-35. 2006.[5] U. Ilic, H. I. Haseski, and U. Tugtekin, "Publications trends over 10 years of computational thinking research," in Contemporary Education Technology, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 131-153, 2018.[6] R. Lesh and H. M. Doerr (Eds.). Beyond constructivism: Models and modeling
project-based learning, the authors note that the K-12 programsoften fail to deliver comprehensive skills training and practical experiences, which supports ourhypothesis that teaching often focuses on technical expertise. Most courses integrate the teachingof programming with software engineering practices and found that students performed well ingaining conceptual understanding. They made note of an issue that most publications lackedinformation about the objectives, instructional strategy, and methodology for designing thecourse material. The systematic literature review we present here moves beyond the specificcourse design covered by da Cruz Pinheiro et al.’s research and focuses on the intersection ofdigital and engineering skills.Heintz
faculty member’s sphere of influenceand avoid potential pitfalls has proven useful in discussions of the CAREER program broadly. Italso generalizes the main components of successful CAREER proposals rather than focusing onthe particular research and education aspects of a project.Moving Toward “CAREER Ready”While the previous two sections provide useful advice for positioning one’s CAREER proposal,they do not include sign-posts indicating what an individual should be doing or looking for to beready to write a competitive CAREER proposal and, if successful, thrive while completing thepromised work. Recognizing this gap, we developed and honed the 5 “I”s of CAREER readiness.The Five I’s are: Ideas, Integration, Impact, Identity, and Infrastructure
metacognitive skills may help engineeringprograms improve instruction in this area which, in turn, could help students transition moreeffectively into professional practice. 1 D. J. Hacker, Metacognition: Definitions and empirical foundations, in D. J. Hacker, J. Dunlosky and A. C. Graesser (eds), Metacognition in Educational Theory and Practice, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey, pp. 1-23, 1998. 2 A. L. Brown and J. S. DeLoache, Skills, plans, and self-regulation, in R. S. Siegel (ed), Children’s thinking: What develops? Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N.J., pp. 3-35, 1987. 3 J. H. Flavell, Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive- developmental inquiry, American Psychologist, 34, pp
%Purpose of title in a technical document is to describe the document's scope 26 20% Strategy of writing the summary last 22 17%Importance of understanding audience(s) in a technical document 19 15% The same students enrolled in the third-year engineering writing course were surveyed inthe same fashion for the films about writing emails. As shown in Table 2, the top responses forwhat in the films surprised the students the most were as follows: how the first paragraph shouldstate the purpose of the email, expectations for an effective subject line (which parallels theresponse for titles in reports), how to
5 0.20* Number of hours spent on SS homework in an average week 7.40 -0.28** Instructional quantity Self-reported attendance 63.8% -0.02 Home env. Highest educational status of parent(s)/gaurdian(s) Bachelors 0.21* Classroom env. 5-point scale on if the learning environment was comfortable 4 0.09 Peer group 5-point scale on if peers helped with their understanding 3 and 4 -0.12*significant at p< 0.10, **significant at p< 0.01,Table 2: Correlation between factors in the MoEP [15] and the SSCI post-test score
. Sethupathy, “The Age of Analytics: Competing in a Data-Driven World,” McKinsey Global Institute, New York, NY, 2016.[5] S. Olsen and D. G. Riordan, “Engage to excel: Producing one million additional college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,” Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC, 2012.[6] US Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Projections of occupational employment, 2014-24,” Career Outlook, Washington, DC, 2015.[7] Burning Glass Technologies, “The art of employment: How liberal arts graduates can improve their labor market practices,” Boston, MA, 2013.[8] J. Rothwell, “The hidden STEM economy,” Brookings Institute, Washington, DC, 2013.[9
some are entirely out of our control from an instructional effectivenessstandpoint. Factors considered to be under our control are semester (SEM), lecture (LEC), andsession (SESSION), as these factors relate to the overall performance of the instructor(s) as awhole (assuming the nature of students in the course is consistent from year to year). Factorsthat are partially under our control are TA, experience (TAEXP), and degree (TADEG). While itis not always possible for the faculty to select each TA, some control is possible, and it is alsoattainable to improve the training and mentoring of TAs. Factors considered to be outside ourcontrol include major (MAJ) and lab attendance (LABATT), average lab score (LABSCORE),and homework score (HWSCORE
: 1) Development of a solution based on a well-specified theory of action appropriateto a well-defined end user; 2) Creation of measures to assess the implementation of thesolution(s); 3) Collection of data on the feasibility of implementing the solution(s) in typicaldelivery settings by intended users; and 4) Conducting a pilot study to examine the promise ofgenerating the intended outcomes [22].Theory of ActionHuman capital theory is a theory of investment in human capital, or the abilities and skills,acquired through investment in education and training, of any individual, that enhance potentialincome earning [23]. Human capital models examine how students make cost–benefit analysesand subsequent decisions on whether to attend and persist
efficiency possible from the powercycle? 1 4 3 2 Figure 3a: T-S diagram for Rankine Cycle Figure 3b: Devices in Rankine Power CycleThe temperature entropy (T-S) diagram and the states at the inlet and outlet of the devices areshown in Figures 3a and 3b. For maximum efficiency it can be surmised the power plant willoperate under a Rankine cycle with an isentropic turbine and pump. Ignoring the kinetic and Figure 4a: State Panel (Given P = 2MPa and T=400oC determines all other properties)potential energy effects, the efficiency can be determined using Equation (1) with the enthalpiesat all the states: (ℎ1−ℎ2)−(ℎ4−ℎ3) 𝑛
theirintern(s). For example, they had to actively encourage confused interns to ask questions.Similarly, the mentors learned that the interns were not always willing to admit when they didnot understand new material. I learned that I should encourage students I am working with to ask more questions earlier on and that I should be more active in confirming that my explanations are adequate. I can do this by asking the student to write in words what I have asked them to do or to show me after they do the first step. I learned that even when a student says they understand and gives a one sentence summary it does not necessarily mean that they understand. I have learned to think from the student side and make
viewof ethics, where the engineer is strongly coupled to the system they affect through their work,provides the opportunity for more meaningful feedback through narrative construction [39]; atopic that will be addressed in future work.Bibliography[1] W. R. Bowen, Engineering Ethics: Outline of an Aspirational Approach. London: Springer-Verlag, 2009.[2] K. Rayne, T. Martin, S. Brophy, N. Kemp, J. D. Hart, and K. R. Diller, “The Development of adaptive expertise in biomedical engineering ethics,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 95, pp. 165–174, 2006.[3] W. Carpenter, “Teaching Ethics To Engineers,” in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2004, p. 13862.[4] M. A. Selby, “Assessing Engineering Ethics Training
, Power system Author 6 Mechanical Engr. student Liquid cooling systemTable 3: Team CrayowulfFor SBCs, the team chose the Nvidia Jetson TX-2 because each board has a six-core 2-GHzARMv8 64-bit CPU complex, a 1.3-GHz 256-core GPU, and 8 GB of memory. The TX-2’s GPUprovides vector-like SIMD processing, and the vast majority of the current top ten supercomputersin the world are powered by GPUs [20].In October, the team got to work, with Author 6 researching liquid cooling systems and how onemight be designed for the Nvidia Jetson TX-2 SBCs, Author 5 researching post-quantumencryption algorithms and how they might be implemented on a cluster, Author 3 researching thehardware to be purchased, as well as Beowulf cluster system
practice. Then, transfer that knowledge and experience to the final steps in theprocess, when they are fully immersed abroad.The guided CIAs are individual writing, out-of-class assignments that are followed by in-classdiscussions on the significance of the analyses. The papers are structured around the threequestions [24] given below for CIA #1:1. What? – A brief description of: o the most salient emotion(s) experienced so far in your attempt to contextualize and define the design problem o the incident, encounter or activity that evoked the emotion(s)2. So What? o How has the experience impacted your assumptions, expectations and perspectives of the co-learners or design process?3. Now What? o What specific
, dissemination of the resultsof this work is expected to provide a model for institutional implementation of evidence-basedpractices at colleges or universities of similar size and/or student body demographics as AAMU,a land-granted minority serving university.AcknowledgmentThis study has been supported by the S-STEM program of National Science Foundation (NSF)and MSEIP program of Department of Education (DOEd). The authors greatly appreciate thesupport and encouragement from the NSF and DOEd program officers and university colleagues.References 1. Chang, M. J., Cerna, O., Han, J., & Sáenz, V. The contradictory roles of institutional status in retaining underrepresented minorities in biomedical and behavioral science majors. The Review of
immersive virtual reality to a science lab simulation causes more presence but less learning. Learning and Instruction, 2019. 60: p. 225-236.6. Huang, H.-M., U. Rauch, and S.-S. Liaw, Investigating learners’ attitudes toward virtual reality learning environments: Based on a constructivist approach. Computers & Education, 2010. 55(3): p. 1171-1182.7. Lee, E.A.-L. and K.W. Wong, Learning with desktop virtual reality: Low spatial ability learners are more positively affected. Computers & Education, 2014. 79: p. 49-58.8. Felder, R.M., and R. Brent,, Designing and Teaching Courses to Satisfy the ABET Engineering Criteria. Journal of Engineering Education, 2003. 92(1): p. 7-25.9
. Anderson, “On the development of a professional identity: Engineering persisters vs engineering switchers,” in 2009 39th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009, pp. 1–6.[5] K. L. Meyers, M. W. Ohland, A. L. Pawley, S. E. Silliman, and K. A. Smith, “Factors relating to engineering identity,” Global Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 119–131, 2012.[6] J. A. Rohde, L. Benson, G. Potvin, A. Kirn, and A. Godwin, “You Either Have It or You Don’t: First Year Engineering Students’ Experiences of Belongingness,” presented at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2018, Accessed: Feb. 02, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/you-either-have-it-or-you-don-t-first-year-engineering
generation science standards: For states, by states. National Academies Press, 2013.[4] “NGSS Hub.” [Online]. Available: https://ngss.nsta.org/About.aspx. [Accessed: 08-Oct-2019].[5] E. R. Banilower, P. S. Smith, K. A. Malzahn, C. L. Plumley, E. M. Gordon, and M. L. Hayes, “Report of the 2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education,” Horizon Research, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC, Dec. 2018.[6] Afterschool Alliance, “The Growing Importance of Afterschool in Rural Communities,” Afterschool Alliance, Washington DC, USA, Mar. 2016.[7] E. R. Banilower, P. S. Smith, I. R. Weiss, K. A. Malzahn, K. M. Campbell, and A. M. Weis, “Report of the 2012 National Survey of Science And Mathematics Education,” p. 311, 2013.[8] R. Hammack