Paper ID #31679Work in Progress: Quantifying Learning by Reflecting on Doing in anEngineering Design, Build and Test CourseMrs. Shan Peng, University of Oklahoma Shan Peng is a pursuing a MS in Data Science and Analytics at the University of Oklahoma. Shan is working with Professors Janet K. Allen and Farrokh Mistree in the Systems Realization Laboratory at OU. Her MS thesis is about design and development of a text mining program to facilitate instructors gain insight about students’ learning by analyzing their learning statements in engineering design, build and test courses. Shan is a winner of the ”2019 NSF/ASME
Development and Implementation of Self-Reflection Participation Logs in an English-taught Engineering Program in ChinaKey Words: Participation, Student Engagement, China, Assessment Methods, Teaching AbroadIntroductionActive student participation has been correlated with a variety of positive outcomes includingimproved critical thinking, development of important professional skills (includingcommunication and interpersonal interaction skills), increased understanding of course material,and better academic performance across diverse disciplines, including engineering [1]–[5]. Putsimply by Weaver and Qi [6], “students who actively participate in the learning process learnmore than those who do not.” In order to
Paper ID #29070”It’s been a while”: Faculty reflect on their experiences implementingwhat they learned during an intensive summer programDr. Ariana C Vasquez, Colorado School of Mines Ariana Vasquez is the DeVries Post-Doctoral Fellow at Colorado School of Mines. She earned her doc- torate in Educational Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin. Ariana’s research focuses on motivation, learning, and achievement. Her research is driven by a desire to find solutions to educational problems in the classrooms. Her work experience while at UT Austin, included time at the Charles A. Dana Center, the Center for Teaching
Paper ID #28593Experiences, Issues and Reflections of School-Enterprise Joint Trainingin Chinese Mainland under the Vision of PETOE Strategy: An EmpiricalStudy Based on Small-N CasesDr. Hang Zhang, Beihang University Hang Zhang is a Ph.D. student in Beihang University, Beijing, China. Hang Zhang also works as a lecturer in University For Science & Technology Beijing. She received her B.S. in English Linguistics from Tian- jin Foreign Studies University in 2002, and M.S. in Higher Education from Guangxi Normal University in 2009. She studied as a visiting scholar in School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington,USA
integrate entrepreneurial minded learning within theundergraduate curriculum. With funding from the Kern Family Foundation, the goals of thiswork are not only to better equip students to meet the demands of the modern marketplace butalso to empower students to tell the story of their growth into entrepreneurially mindedengineers. In order to tell this story, students engage in a portfolio process grounded in evidenceand reflection. The structure of this story-centric curricular framework consists of a first-yearlauncher course where foundational topics such as design thinking, reflection, folio thinking, andentrepreneurial mindset are introduced. At the other end of the framework is a unique coursecalled The Art of Telling Your Story. In this upper
CourseNetworking (or CN), an academic social networking based learning platform that is being used by learners and educators from more than 160 countries. CourseNetworking’s most critical component is a social ePortfolio, which is institutions and educational programs to help their students collect, select, reflect on their learning and network with others who share similar academic interests. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Using ePortfolios to Facilitate Transfer Student SuccessAbstractThis paper describes the use of an ePortolio to facilitate success as students transfer from acommunity college system to baccalaureate engineering technology
cycle of activity in four areas that supports individual and collaborativeself-directed learning and metacognitive processing. The model emphasizes reflection,evaluation, and integration while individuals design their learning, engage with resources tosupport individual study or learning in a community of practice [3], develop practices or projectsto integrate conceptual into applied knowledge with an iterative cycle of quality improvement[4], and engage in practices to increase awareness of and synthesize learning. Having completedone course through the cycle, learners synthesize and enhance awareness of their knowledgethrough curating their learning narrative in an ePortfolio [5].After evaluating student and instructor feedback over the past
, Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching Susanna Calkins, PhD is the Director of Faculty Initiatives and the Senior Associate Director of the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching at Northwestern University. She is co-author of two books, Reflective Teaching (Bloomsbury Press, 2020) and Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: The Reflective Professional ( Sage, 2009). She has also co-authored over thirty articles related to conceptions and approaches to teaching, the assessment of learning, program evaluation, mentoring, and has been a co-PI on several NSF grants. She also teaches in the Masters of Higher Education Administration Program at Northwestern.Dr. Lisa M. Davidson, Northwestern
projects.Dr. Carolyn L Sandoval, University of California, San Diego Dr. Sandoval is the Associate Director of the Teaching + Learning Commons at the University of Cali- fornia, San Diego. She earned a PhD in Adult Education-Human Resource Development. Her research interests include adult learning and development, faculty development, qualitative methods of inquiry, and social justice education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Integration of Weekly Reflections in an Introductory Design Class to Assess Experiential Learning OutcomesI. Introduction Hands-on design courses, particularly at the introductory level, have gained popularity in engineering
, and theengaging process of curating learning experiences and artifacts, we hypothesize that students willcome to perceive their classroom learning experience as being multi-dimensional and immersive.Teaching students about meta-learning and requiring them to reflect on their learning viaePortfolios should further support a holistic learning experience. For the instructor and teachingassistants, ePortfolio-based projects will provide a good catalog of work for assessing studentmastery as well as the opportunity to make meta-learning and reflective practice part of theassessment process. As students will also have the opportunity to give and receive feedback fromtheir peers, they will have the benefit of incorporating other views and
Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT), a professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering, and the inaugural holder of the Mitchell T. & Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair at the University of Washington. Dr. Atman is co-director of the newly-formed Consortium for Promoting Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE), funded by a $4.4 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. She was director of the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), a national research center that was funded from 2003-2010. Dr. Atman is the author or co-author on over 115 archival publications. She has been invited to give many keynote addresses, including a
bringchildren in for daily activities. This project is a first-time collaboration between University X andthe Town YWCA, and focused on a building a lasting relationship. The faculty advisors used acombination of assignments to evaluate the evolution and to track growth of students: equitytraining modules from an instructor handbook and self-reflection assessments based on Edutopia[1]. These assignments were given to the students on a per-term basis to track changes ortransformations in student behavior as they discover and address resource limitations, uniquedesign constraints, and working with team members from different disciplines. Morespecifically, these assessment measurements were: asset maps; changes to interpersonal teamdynamics from strangers
, 2020Lessons Learned: Teaching and Learning Academy Workshop to Promote an Asset-based Mindset among STEM facultyAbstractThis lessons learned paper describes the strategies in planning, organizing, and delivering aTeaching and Learning Academy Workshop that focused on bridging the cultural and perceptiongap between faculty and students in math and engineering classrooms. Grounded in Yosso’sCommunity Cultural Wealth model, the workshop was designed to engage participants in asequence of reflective and conversational activities that allowed the faculty to connect their owneducational experiences with their expectation towards the students, and recognize the strengthof the students in terms of their cultural wealth in Aspirational
sciences (e.g., Critical Reflective Writing; Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering, etc.) All of these activities share a common goal of creat- ing curricular and pedagogical structures as well as academic cultures that facilitate students’ interests, motivation, and desire to persist in engineering. Through this work, outreach, and involvement in the com- munity, Dr. Zastavker continues to focus on the issues of women and minorities in science/engineering.Eleanor Berke, Boston Public Schools Berke is interested in the ways that role play may cause the body to shift the mind building, empathy and perspective. She has used acting as a tool to cultivate empathy for the immigrant experience, to improve
particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work-in-Progress: An Online Journal Tool with Feedback for a Learning Assistant Program in EngineeringOverviewThis work-in-progress paper presents the development and pilot implementation of a computer-based reflection tool used in a Learning Assistant (LA) Program in
Paper ID #30323Teaching Ethical Photography to deepen Global Engineering CompetencyDr. Robert S Emmett, Virginia Tech Dr. Emmett serves as Assistant Director for Global Engagement in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of US Garden Writing (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) and with David E. Nye, Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction (MIT Press, 2017). With Gregg Mitman and Marco Armiero, he edited the collection of critical reflections and works of art, Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (Uni
experience included surveying thestudents about their feelings on diversity and engineering both before and after the activity, anin-class activity focused on design and diversity of teams, and a reflection and discussion periodabout the students’ experiences. A discussion of the successes and opportunities forimprovement within the activities is included, along with changes planned for the second trialduring the current academic year.MethodsFor the pilot run of the activities, the professors each developed an in-class project that tookplace during one class period. Each activity contained a technical aspect, a design aspect, and areflection period. Both projects chose a product to design that had an aspect which wasinfluenced by the background of
technical learning [1][2], however in most cases where fiction is used, it supports professional learning in areas likeethics. In this paper, the authors go beyond the presentation of a case study where literature wasused to frame and guide discussions around ethics in an engineering course by coding studentartifacts for values. Specifically, the student engineers participating in a seminar course wererequired to read and reflect in writing on Prey by Michael Crichton [3]. To set the stage for thiscase, some of the moral philosophy arguments around the use of fiction are discussedculminating in the conclusion that fiction is an appropriate tool in the teaching of ethics. Then,we will examine how literature has been broadly used in technical courses
, the approach becomes collaborativeautoethnography. Collaborative inquiry, in contrast to collaborative autoethnography, is a researchapproach where people pair reflection on practice with action through multiple cycles of reflection,collective sense-making, and action. The combination of these methodologies allowed us to deeply andsystematically explore our own experiences, allowing us to develop a model of professional agencytowards change in engineering education through collaborative sense-making. Throughout this process,data collection included (1) written reflections, (2) weekly meetings, and (3) framework activities.Previous works have described the design and analysis of the written reflections [1], [2] and the weeklymeetings [3]. The
. Jacoby conciselydescribes service learning as “a form of experiential education in which students engage inactivities that address human and community needs together with structured opportunitiesintentionally designed to promote student learning and development” [1].The main components of community engaged learning are service, academic content, partnershipand reciprocity, and finally, analysis or reflection [2]. The service should provide support andsolutions for overcoming a community identified need, while also deepening students learning ofengineering concepts. The community engagement work provides an opportunity for students toapply their classroom learning in a real world setting, with the intention of enriching theirunderstanding of
Washington Andrew Davidson is a senior lecturer in human centered design and engineering at the University of Washington, specializing in physical computing and HCI. He directs the department’s K–12 outreach program, and is also a former high school computer science teacher.Dr. Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the Univer- sity of Washington. She is interested in all aspects of engineering education, including how to support engineering students in reflecting on experience, how to help engineering educators make effective teach- ing decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of
, Michigan Technological University As Professor of Practice - Engineering Communications, Dr. Nancy Barr developed a multi-faceted tech- nical communications program in the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Department at Michigan Technological University. She delivers embedded communication and teaming instruction to undergraduate students, teaches two graduate engineering communication courses, assists faculty and GTAs in crafting and evaluating assignments that reflect real-world engineering situations. Her current research focuses on gender dynamics in collaborative projects and portfolio assessment practices. The author of three mystery novels and an award-winning short story, Barr has a Ph.D. in Rhetoric
Service-Learning Design CourseAbstractThe development and skill of empathizing with others has become a necessity for successfuldesign engineers. To develop this skill, learning experiences are needed that encourageengineering students’ understanding of their users and stakeholders. Studies have shown an“authentic” experience involving real-world contexts reflecting the work of professionals helpsto develop and foster empathy. At Purdue University, a service-learning design program partnersmulti-disciplinary teams of students with community organizations to address needs and solvereal-world problems. In previous research on the program’s design process, findings showed howstudents perceive the human aspect of engineering design and how they
pathways to developing those skills within anengineer’s educational experience [5]. This study seeks to explore the learner’s (highereducation students) perspective on utilizing emotional intelligence assessments, reflection andcoaching as a path to crossing the boundary between the need to develop both the technical andtransversal skills for achieving success in their professional career.Background With a call for engineering education to meet the evolving global and industry-focuseddemands of engineers, more research is needed to bridge the gap between what does industrydemand of its employees and leaders and what are the pedagogical approaches that supportbuilding that bridge within higher engineering education. Beder [6] states that
and its placement within the course structure.The 2019 reinforcement lesson provided a mid-semester opportunity for teams to revisit thescholarly and authoritative sources module from early in the semester. A short group writingassignment asked students to reflect on sources they had found and used thus far. It also providedan opportunity for faculty to remind students about related help materials in the course’s libraryresearch guide. The new mid-semester lesson was piloted in 6 course sections; deployed andgraded via Canvas, the university’s learning management system (LMS).A sampling of course faculty, both those who piloted the lesson and those who did not, wereinterviewed about their perceptions of the success of the pilot and the role
the ASEE ECE Division, served as an as- sociate editor for the ASEE Journal of Engineering Education, and served on the IEEE Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities, the IEEE Education Society Board of Governors, the ABET EAC (2009-2014), and EAC Executive Committee (2015-2018). Dr. Rover is a Fellow of the IEEE and of ASEE.Dr. Mani Mina, Iowa State University Mani Mina is with the department of Industrial Design and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He has been working on better understanding of students’ learning and aspects of tech- nological and engineering philosophy and literacy. In particular how such literacy and competency are reflected in curricular and student
literature, and yet a new faculty member, who has no experience in offering atravel course, may be either deluded by the vacation mentality or daunted by the trip-planninglogistics and hence loses out on the opportunity to incorporate this practice. This paper presents acase study on an initiative to encourage and mentor faculty members to offer faculty-led tripsenhanced by interdisciplinary collaborations. From the instructor’s point of view, we providedour timeline, collaborative relationship development, backward course design driven by learningoutcomes, and the transferrable strategies to overcome the challenges along the way. From thestudents’ learning effectiveness point of view, we provided student reflections using the DEALmodel [5] to
local, national, and higher education stakeholders for use in K-12 formal and informal spaces.The motivation for the research project is the development of anapplication that will integrate the EEFK12 into a tool that is useful inthe hands of students and teachers. The mobile application has thesepurposes: to facilitate peer assessment after real-time interaction instudio or design critiques, to facilitate and encourage self-reflectionand metacognition, to provide additional data for teachers to use inassessment, and to show students’ growth and change over time (ifused in long-term educational experiences). The hypothesis is thatpeer assessment will support reflection in the community of Figure 1 Interaction of outcomes of
experience[1]. It is not possible to understand the processes of service learning without considering Kolb’sexperiential learning model [2, 3]. Kolb used the term “experiential learning” to describe hisperspective on learning in order to link his ideas to their roots in the works of [4, 5, 6] and toemphasize the central role that experience plays in the learning process. Within Kolb’sexperiential learning theory [2, 3], learning is described as a four-stage cycle consisting ofconcrete experience (feeling dimension), reflective observation (reflecting dimension), abstractconceptualization (thinking dimension), and active experimentation (doing dimension).In order to develop graduates who possess the knowledge, skills, and teamwork necessary to
measures of academicperformance [19]. These courses have also been linked to decreases in dysfunctional careerthoughts [20], [21], [22] and psychological distress [23].As stated, there is scant research available on classes where career development supports havebeen integrated into existing program curricula. The information that does exist is primarilyanecdotal, with practitioners using mainly informal career supports and sharing their experiencesand observations at conferences (e.g. [4]), in articles focusing on their experiences (e.g. [5]), orreporting data that are generally gleaned from students’ self-reports via course evaluations. Forexample, when employability skills language and reflections were integrated into classrooms atMemorial