audience participation, as well ascommentary from a distinguished panel of “experts.” Prior to the event, panelists were providedthe full ethics case, alternative courses of action, and the website outcomes, so they had alreadythought about the case and could be ready with observations and insights.Figure 2. Professional Ethics LIVE! skit presentations (2012) The ethics skits, as derivative works of the published cases, warrant specific mention.The instructional approach was to dramatize ethics situations taken from actual professionalpractice, and initially these skits were done on an “improvised” basis, reflecting the initiative,creative talent, and interest of the JPI editor. However, as Professional Ethics LIVE! grew, theneed arose for
diversity with only one African-American and one student from Africa.The overall categorization of the Homework problems is shown in Table 2. Note that eventhough 33 students were registered for the course that on any given week only 25 to 30 bothturned in homework and were present to take the quiz. At the university, attendance is taken atclass and the students are allowed to miss lectures totaling 2 weeks’ worth of meetings over thecourse of the semester.The homework breakdown shows some immediate points. The number of homework problemscategorized by the fidelity paid to the published solutions is not constant but varies by problem.For example, the number of problems categorized as 3 (reflecting virtual copying of solutionmanual) varied from a
Northwestern and Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Required Computer Science Education in BME Undergraduate ProgramsAbstract Data collected for the Biomedical Engineering Education Summit Meeting in 2019 showedthat computer programming was required of undergraduates in biomedical engineering andbioengineering at more than 98% of the 57 accredited BME programs that responded to asurvey. This is an increase over an earlier dataset from 2004, reflecting the increased need forengineers to be competent in programming. However, education in computer programming cantake many forms, and there has
increases low.For instance, in 2009, an in-state, full-time student would have paid $7,226 in tuition and in theacademic year 2016-17, a full-time student has paid $8,547 in tuition. These modest tuition ratesreflect approximately a 3% increase each year since 2009. Although, a relatively smaller increasein percentage, it has outpaced Indiana’s annual per capita income and the financial impact oftuition increases is clearly reflected in the growing number of enrollments of students whoqualify for financial assistance. Specifically, 40.1% of ISU’s total undergraduate population hasreceived federal Pell grants in fall 2017 [4] (see Table 1). Table 1: Undergraduate Enrollment Comparison
responsible for the majorityof the light emission from surface water while the bloom dominating the water column (Zamyadiet al., 2016). Therefore, detection of the algae and cyanobacteria by aerial imaging can be donebased on fluorescent reflection from surface water. Furthermore, several algorithms weredeveloped over the past decade to correlate the aerial light reflection spectrum to the algaebiomass and species for the purpose of bloom monitoring and prediction. Interdisciplinaryknowledge on geography, biology, surface hydrology, computer science and mathematics arerequired to work on this research project. Students recruited to work on this project will have theopportunity to apply the skills learned in their own major courses, meanwhile, expose
]. Engineering from a 21st century perspective, focuses onfinding solutions aligned with the needs and expectations of clients, while adhering to ethical andsocietal expectations of making the world a better place for others to live in [14]. There isevidence that the structure of some engineering programs may not be conducive to developing amindset aligned with 21st century engineering [15]. Given the potential for makerspace projectsto be aligned with a 21st century philosophy of engineering, there is justification for assessing ifstudents are developing a 21st century engineering mindset.Belongingness and InclusionThrough the use of makerspaces, students may gain a sense of how much they perceive theybelong and are included in situations reflective of
. Students write about their experience during the last ten (10) minutes of class. Students wrote they felt “refreshed” after the meditation experience and were going to try to add reflective time to focus on stress management into their schedules. Many students were very concerned about their Life Stressors Index and wrote about coping mechanisms they plan to employ in order to improve their own lives. They also wrote about how they will look for signs of distress in their construction crews and work to improve work-life balance for themselves and their subordinates.Week 4 – Leadership, Personality, and Learning Styles The module begins by juxtaposing the definitions of leadership and management. For this first class in the
reflect on and showcase their accomplishments. Amy earned her Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU), and is currently pursuing her PhD in Engineering Education Systems and Design.Dr. Alison Cook-Davis, Arizona State University Dr. Alison Cook-Davis is Assistant Director for Program Evaluation at the Arizona State University’s Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness (UOEEE). She has a BA in Psychology, MS in So- cial Psychology, MLS Legal Studies, and a Ph.D. in Experimental Social Psychology. Prior to joining UOEEE, she supported the research and program evaluation efforts of Maricopa County Adult Proba- tion Department, coordinated and executed the research and
discussion as follows: Molly relies on her students to share their reflections on their design solutions and performance results, propose alternative solutions, and guide one another to more informed understandings about the properties of materials and its effects on drag … It is clear that Molly positioned her students’ thinking at the center of this phase of the design process. Students were able to leverage their test results to share and reflect on their tentative understandings of drag and design. [10, p. 367]As Capobianco and colleagues suggest here, the goal of post-testing argumentation discussions isfor each team to re-consider their design performance and improvement ideas in light of theirpeers’ designs
. 3B. Why Learn About International OBE and OBA Experiences & Best Practices?The aim of this work is to present a synthesis of the experiences of an international set of authorsand sharing of the global best practices in the field related to accreditation and assessment. In thispaper, we present a global international perspective on OBE accreditation standards, practices,and attitudes. Apart from listing our observations, we also point out where relevant availableguidelines and best practices that have been reported earlier in literature.We find through our survey that there is a lot of diversity in the global OBE accreditation andassessment practices but also some unifying trends. The diversity reflects the fact that eachuniversity is
program, despite its clear focus on such experiences. In this section,we highlight some of the definitions, criteria, and characteristics found in the literature whichhave informed the set of characteristics used in this paper.Some discussions of real-world examples might imply that “real-world” necessitates connectionsto people in some explicit, direct or indirect way. For example, Huff writes that in his course,students, “Reflect on how real electrical systems interact with persons, and critique how theseelectrical systems affect social or environmental systems.” [17, p. 6]. In lieu of individual people,human organizations might be engaged, as suggested in the second course described bySubrahmanian and co-authors, which grounds real-world
interviews was designed to understandstudents’ background and pathways into engineering. The second round of interviews involvedasking the students to complete a journey map to guide the interview focused on understandingtheir identity trajectory. This journey map documented the “high points” and “low points” of astudent’s experiences over the previous semester and was used as a reflective tool and datacollection artifact to guide the narrative interviews. The third round of interviews continues to usejourney maps and students’ stories to understand their development in engineering.The interviews were used to develop “restoryed” case summaries. A restoryed case summary is ashort version of each student’s pathway and highlights. In addition to these
arrive at the answer. 85) Feedback should be aligned with goalsFeedback should be aligned with the purpose of the assignment and its evaluation criteria. Morespecifically, feedback should clarify what good performance is in terms of goals, criteria, andexpected standards.6) Feedback should encourage reflection, self-adjustment, and improvement “[Growth mindset] is about telling the truth about a student’s current achievement and then, together, doing something about it, helping him or her become smarter.”—Carol Dweck [25]Merely providing timely and specific feedback is insufficient: teachers must encourage self-assessment and expect the
actual labs and give a good visual of what to expect on the actual lab day.”Instructor Reflection about the VL ImplementationThe AAE 20401 instructor shared his experience during the VL implementation. The instructorspecifically talked about the challenging issues that he faced during the implementation. “When we first received the Virtual Lab software (Spring 2018), we received the prototype version of the software. Thus, it needed some work before implementing it in the student learning environment. In Spring 2018, we had graduate student lab TAs run the prototype VL program so that we can get a proper feedback. Then, during Summer 2018, I hired one graduate student to go through all the functionality of VLs
Survey of UndergraduateResearch Experience (SURE), the Undergraduate Research Student Self-Assessment(URSSA), and instruments that measure engineering identity and sense of belonging. We alsodeveloped open-ended, qualitative questions that invited self-reflection. These questionscovered topics such as how students define “engineer,” circumstances in which they did anddid not feel like engineers, and how students with research experience would explain thevalue of that experience to potential employers or a graduate admissions committee. In spring2019, a survey of 64 questions was administered to all enrolled students in our engineeringschool, and 28% of students responded. Respondent demographics were representative of theschool’s student
engineering education and how their experiences reflect broader structural andsocietal inequalities present in engineering education.Dr. Suren Jayasuriya is an assistant professor in the Arts, Media, & Engineering program atArizona State University, and serves as Madeleine’s mentor on multiple projects. Hisbackground and research are in electrical engineering and computer science, although he has newresearch projects in engineering education, including epistemologies and student experiences ininterdisciplinary engineering and the arts/humanities programs. His subjectivity in this projectmostly focused on the application of queer theory and philosophy in the works collected in thisliterature review, including analyzing how effectively those ideas
examines the effectiveness of interprofessional project-based service learning (PBSL)experience in fostering a deep orientation to learning, and professional skills (especiallycommunication and teamwork). Learning orientation describes a student’s attitude towards andmotivation for studying. It is desirable that engineering students adopt a so-called deep learningorientation, emphasizing understanding as well as reflection on the applicability of course contentand the transferability of learning experiences to professional settings 5 . The need for a focus onprofessional skills has been emphasized since the 1990s due to the preponderance of engineeringjobs being in commercial industry, where the ability to function as part of a cross
results is on events andforces emerging from the primary character and the setting. Images and themes in the partici-pants’ responses become a tool in uncovering hidden interpersonal perceptions not typicallyfound in other, more quantitative research tools. Debate exists concerning whether the meas-ure reflects how individuals perceive themselves, how they perceive others, how they actuallybehave, norms, stereotypes, bias or some combination of these possibilities, yet experts agreethat the TAT is capable of capturing images not likely to be expressed with other techniques[10].Emotion Scale (PANAS): Mood ReportThe second measure, supplementing the story results, is a short version of the PANAS multi-ple-item, two factor scale that ensures content
on things that have a deep significance to them, so if developers comefrom a diversity of backgrounds and sensibilities, their innovations will have a greater impact onthe world. Nichols states that the culture of robotics changed between 2008 and 2018, and due tothe rapid change in technology, it will continue to change [10]. However, in the past, due to theexpense, technical challenges and programming language complexity, roboticists were veryspecialized, and the workforce reflected the very limited persistent stereotype of an engineer.This stereotype was that the majority of people who work in robotics, engineering, and computerscience are white males. Due to these challenges, women and minorities became severelyunderrepresented in
reflect on this paper as awhole.2. Background2.1 Software engineering curriculum guidelineIn order to evaluate the engineering aspects of digital skills programs, we first need to look at theproposed skills an engineering graduate would be expected to achieve. The SoftwareEngineering 2014 Curriculum Guidelines (SE2014) [12] propose the knowledge areas thatsoftware engineers should master in post-secondary education. SE2014 define the corecurriculum skills needed in software engineering education as: - Computing essentials - Mathematical and engineering fundamentals - Professional practice - Software modeling and analysis - Requirements analysis and specifications - Software design - Software verification & validation
learning to design teaching and learning, program content and structure, student assessment, and continuous course improvement techniques. She managed and was a key contributor to a two-year pilot project to introduce blended learning into the chemical engineering capstone design courses, and is the author of a number of recent journal, book, and conference contribu- tions on engineering education. Her research focusses on how to teach innovation and sustainable design practices to engineers and develop a curriculum reflective of engineering practice requirements. Recently she has taught a short course on how to design and teach process engineering courses to professors in Peru and workshops on Metacognition and
Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in engineer- ing, teaching design and engineering economics, and assessment of student learning.Prof. Marnie V Jamieson, University of Alberta Marnie V. Jamieson, M. Sc., P.Eng. is an Industrial Professor in Chemical Process Design in the Depart- ment of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta and holds an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering Education. She is currently the William Magee Chair in Chemical Process Design, leads the
) through activelearning than passive learning. Throughout our evolution, technology has been passed down bypupils imitating their mentors. This natural preference for learning is reflected in the genericlearning pyramid that was first proposed by National Teaching Laboratory Institute at theirBethel, Maine campus in the early 1960’s and the related work have been proposed by severalother researchers [31-34]. Though rightly criticized, the pyramid provides a measure of contentretention from lectures (5%), laboratory experiments (70%), and design projects (90%). Thisdisparity in content retention was recognized by the 5th century B.C Chinese proverb, “What Ihear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand.” ENDEAVOR harnesses
for Engineering Education, 2020 Spatial Visualization Skills Training at Texas State University to Enhance STEM Students Academic SuccessAbstractA diagnostic of thirty questions administered to incoming STEM students in Fall 2013 and Fall2015 - Fall 2018 reflects that their spatial visualization skills (SVS) need to be improved.Previous studies in the SVS subject [1], [2], [3] report that well-developed SVS skills lead tostudents’ success in Engineering and Technology, Computer Science, Chemistry, ComputerAided Design and Mathematics. Authors [4], [5] mention that aptitude in spatial skills isgradually becoming a standard assessment of an individual’s likelihood to succeed as anengineer.This research reports the
reflect on your understanding of the NSF-funded Engineering ResearchCenter (ERC). Rate your present level of understanding, as well as your level of understandingprior to participating in the ERC for each of the items below.” No items in this section wereshown to be highly correlated with one another (see Appendix A).A two-factor structure emerged through EFA (Table 1): 1) present understanding, and 2) priorunderstanding. Both factors achieved good reliability levels; Cronbach’s alpha of 0.909 forpresent understanding and 0.907 for prior understanding.Table 1. Factor structure and factor loadings for understanding the ERC Item Present Prior
segments and todevelop themes. These themes are presented in the Findings and Discussion.LimitationsThe focus groups were limited to the perspectives of those present. Since participation wasvoluntary, it cannot be assumed that the voices were reflective of the rest of the students in thecourses. Recruitment in qualitative research has been linked to interest in the subject matter [31]so the focus group participants might have been more interested in ESI. The 4DDD was chosenas the theoretical framework as a way to interpret the potential of a micro-insertion to contributeto ethical development through its conceptualization of instructional design for holisticdevelopment. However, there are a number of models and theories related to effective
’ ratings fromone moment in time to another. Each survey included 13 questions intended to capture a student’soverall sense of community, derived from the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction andFrustration Scale [22]: Thinking about your experiences in your undergraduate studies so far, please indicate how true each statement is for you on a scale of 1 (Not at all true) to 5 (Extremely true). Each question also included a ”Not Applicable” option. 1. I feel a sense of choice and freedom in what I undertake 2. I feel capable at what I do 3. I really like the people I interact with 4. I feel confident that I can do things well 5. I feel that my decisions reflect what I really want
autoethnography.MethodsAutoethnography is a qualitative research method that aims to improve sociological understandingthrough drawing on personal experiences with social phenomena [7, 8, 9]. It looks at whatexisting literature says about these topics and relates it to one’s personal experiences throughrigorous self-reflection [10]. The researcher becomes the research subject. The process can besubjective and, as such, can only be properly experienced and understood by the self [7].This study originated when an informal discussion between two of the co-authors occurred aboutthe struggles female faculty face when teaching a predominantly male student population. Manyof the experiences articulated were found to be similar to those of individuals facing gender bias.Published
professionalcompetency development reflects this. They are found to be goal oriented and demonstrate somelevel of interpersonal skills. The Next-Gen Skilled Trades people comprise multiple generationsand thus represent a more eclectic and diverse set of individuals. They demonstrate stronginterpersonal skills and show appreciation for others.Next-Gen LeadersTable 3 provides a deeper look into the professional competencies associated with each segmentof the talent pipeline. Table 3 compares the average competency by segment to the mean of allpeople who have taken the same suite of TTI TriMetrix® DNA assessments (hundreds ofthousands of people across all professions). The intention is to get a benchmark comparison ofeach segment against an aggregate mean of all