students benefit from the additional resources, but the staff also naturally share best practices and innovative teaching technologies. The program provided opportunities for academic success by: (1) providing scholarships to low-income students who need financial assistance, and (2) developing individualized advising and tutoring. The CAPTURE project also provided objective expectations by providing the flight plans. The Program created a strong communication pipeline between BC, PBSC and FAU, making the seamless transition of students possible, beneficial, and effective. Degree-specific flight plans and program-geared advising and tutoring have provided students with a kind of supplementary
examining issues of social justice and educational equity. Currently, she is on a research team examining the impacts of an out-of-school STEM summer program for racially underrepresented youth.Dr. Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech Dr. Walter Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education and the assistant director for research in the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED), both at Virginia Tech.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Tech David Knight is Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in the De- partment of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is also Director of International Engagement in Engineering Education and affiliate faculty with
Paper ID #42619TA Training at Two R1 Institutions: A Comparative AnalysisMs. Haley Briel, University of Wisconsin, Madison Haley Briel is an instructional design consultant with the Collaboratory for Engineering Education and Teaching Excellence (CEETE) within the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) at UW - Madison’s College of Engineering. Her work focuses on promoting inclusive, evidence-based best practices in teaching for instructional staff and faculty. She is particularly passionate about teaching assistant training as a foundation for graduate students as they begin careers in academia.Dr. Deesha
, whichasks the faculty to cite any challenges or barriers they perceive in reaching their goals. Once all of the interviews and focus groups are completed, a thorough thematic analysis will becompleted.Next Steps Several needs and ideas have emerged through the master mentor discussions andinterviews/focus groups with recently promoted faculty. These needs include (1) more clearexpectations for promotion to a principal lecturer or full-professor, (2) access to internal fundingand high-caliber graduate students to support pivoting to new lines of research, (3) resources thatprovide best practices for mentoring, and (4) resources to support changing research and serviceneeds (e.g. how to apply for larger grants, which committees to serve on
demand from the K-12education community for innovative and practical methodologies for effectively incorporatingengineering into traditional science, mathematics, and technology education programs. Having abetter understanding of the nature of integrated STEM education and what research can tell usabout the outcomes and impacts of integrated approaches will help inform and prepare theengineering education community for contributing constructively to this rapidly emerging STEMeducation movement.Literature Review Page 23.1279.3In the spring of 2011 a team of experts in STEM education and cognitive sciences conducted abroad review of integrated STEM
led tosignificant contributions in sustainable technologies, environmental science, renewable energy,and sustainable agriculture. The university’s Institute for Sustainability, Energy, andEnvironment offers nine bachelor’s degrees, four minors, nine graduate majors, and one graduateminor in areas of urban development, civil and environmental engineering, environmentalscience, energy systems, etc. [6].The Georgia Institute of Technology (17,447 students as of Fall 2021) [3] primarily focuses on ahighly refined sustainability education on sustainable technologies and urban planning, imbuingsustainability-driven innovation within these topics. The school has outlined education forsustainable development and leading sustainability research as two
out how the professional uses the specific method beingcovered in class. Essentially, they are asking, “How do you do this at General Motors?” as anexample. After each of the five conference calls, the student group writes a reflective paperabout what they have learned. This method differs from the traditional case study approachbecause the students do not just read what is written, but can ask initial questions and ask follow-up questions to get a better understanding of what is important by the inflection of the mentor’svoice and hearing the mentor convey it in his/her own words.This research is for the purpose of sharing best practice with other instructors and understandingthe key factors to the program’s success. With this preliminary
insightWhen a team is evaluating design options, the objective is to select the best option tomaximize positive outcomes while minimizing negative consequences. A challenge for mostteams is recognizing the broad range of potential outcomes and consequences, and themagnitudes of those impacts. Questioning helps students discover things they missed. Evenonce the team members have identified the potential outcomes and consequences, they oftenstruggle to develop a consensus of what is “best”. In this case, asking questions helps theteam members discover the underlying values informing each student’s assessment of theimpacts.To motivate the skill, we shared the story of Citicorp Center (Morgenstern 1995): A questionfrom an architecture student prompted
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and decision making. In addition, several research works have demonstrated thatvertical integrating of curriculum could attain better learning outcomes. McCowan2 reported thatseveral Australian schools, particularly in the University of Melbourne, have introduced newlearning methods and innovative approaches that create a team-based learning program with each Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conferenceteam led by a senior undergraduate. He contended that a significant aspect
graduatecourse. The project is part of a larger research program that is building innovative models ofgraduate education to address the interdisciplinary nature of emerging problems in science andengineering technology. The goal is to create a more inclusive environment for studentstraditionally underrepresented in engineering to align their interests with the needs of theproblem under study, develop skills in participatory design and be motivated to pursue graduateresearch. The team of four student co-authors of this paper includes two female first-year graduatestudents in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering andBiotechnology, both of South Asian descent and two undergraduate students from Civil andEnvironmental and
educational design that isbalanced, in part, by other facets of GEL. For instance, GEL students participate elsewhere in amulti-week team project, where success rests on a range of capabilities, as part of their courseworkfor the program’s Design and Innovation Leadership Requirement. Further, students select a long-duration engineering project for a leadership post-mortem analysis as the basis for an essayassignment in the EL seminar course. Yet, in ELL, keeping the activities restricted in time andscope allows greater emphasis to be placed on a narrower range of capabilities, which, in turn,allows for timely and focused feedback that is commensurately scoped. GEL is thereforecomposed of both deep practice opportunities in particular capabilities
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thing at a time. Design challenges help studentsdevelop skills in planning, construction, and testing”. As research indicates, the practice ofdesign projects generated engagement and excitement among students which is not alwayspresent in science classrooms. Several research initiatives showed the positive impact of designbased learning on student’s enthusiasm about the science content. 15, 9, 24Based on the research about learning science concepts through engineering design approaches,we think that engaging students in engineering projects that present them with real life problemsshould provide students with a rich learning environment for application of textbook scienceknowledge.MethodsTo determine how the work on this wireless sensor
operations, to plan andreview operations to be carried out throughout CUNY.Project Approach and Activities 1992-2018The NYC Louis Stokes Alliance at the City University of New York was one of the programsthat ensured the university-wide maintenance of a significant pool of underrepresented minorities(URM) in the STEM disciplines graduating with BS/BA degrees. The CollaborativeInfrastructure at CUNY allowed for the adaptation and adoption of best practices in educationalpedagogy and cutting-edge STEM research. The City University of New York graduated outputrose from 274 in 1994 to 1,529 URM with BA/BS degrees in 2018 at the end of Phase 5 (Phase1-5, 1992 to 2018). The 2018 graduation numbers show an increase over the previous year of1,392. From 2011
concept of open source design. Technical writing coursescould also readily embrace the practice. We are seriously considering creating both these coursesin lieu of what we have done so far. In the case of design, the course will probably be graduatelevel where we can attract even more students in nanotechnology research. In this way, we canmodel further diffusion of TL through process.We have not addressed the issue of metrics. Rather like the collaborative education movement,we are inclined to pursue it first and measure the impacts later hoping for the best. And just likethat movement the first tangible results might be a rise in our teaching evaluations, which didhappen. The students were enthusiastic participants all semester and the formal
Colleges of Engineeringthroughout the next ten years. Additionally, our future engineering graduates and theirinnovative products may be results of increased social awareness, thus, ensuring effectiveness inthe field while an awareness of social needs emerges and is reinvested for the greater good.Further, the P/K-12 community will be the beneficiary of these innovations ensuring thedevelopment of engineering education teachers and the integration of engineering educationwithin curricular and academic standards will permanently occur.The social and human context of the EPICS design projects offers a rich environment forstudents at each level throughout the pre-college through college continuum. The developmentand sustenance of these purposeful and
of theeffort to another office on campus (the Career Center).The students report was both eye-opening and impressive. In our response to the students, weresponded to their points in the following way.1. Create a Center for Diversity and InclusionWe are in the midst of designing a new Campus for Discovery and Innovation, a center for allSTEM disciplines. We have a working group on STEM diversity and student engagement, andthey are charged with identifying appropriate space in the center devoted to diversity andinclusion. This would be the future home of the Center for Engineering Diversity. The new deanis not going to wait for the new building to get started on this effort. He has committed togetting university approval to create a new
our industry partners and the UM Aerospace Industrial Advisory Board in doing this is a priority for us. We stand committed to ensure that our graduates get the best preparation to become successful engineers in the workplace." —Tony Waas, Department Chair, University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering ● “As an industry recruiter, I could tell within the first 5 minutes of an interview, without even looking at the resume, whether someone had robust student project team experience by the way they answered questions, engaged, understood technical work in the broader context of delivering value, in teams, on time and on budget. Unfortunately, those skills were more the exception rather
costs of our builtenvironment. Impacts during manufacture, transport, installation use, winning and disposal ofconstruction materials can be significant, yet often invisible.Various construction material selection and specification remains a challenging, sometimes evencontentious issue. Many designers experience difficulty understanding the full extent ofenvironmental and human health impacts of building materials as they are not easily quantified.Complete and accurate information is elusive. Life-cycle assessment, a thorough accounting ofenvironmental and human health impacts of a material, is the best tool for truly evaluatingmaterials.The benefits of globalization for the construction industry are clear, but the cross impact
distancelearning is to provide training and support through a predefined course package. This approachhowever is not consistent with what are considered “best practices” of teacher professionaldevelopment17. Any professional development program is most effective when it relates to theparticipants’ professional activities. Teachers bring with them a diverse set of strategies forteaching and learning from their own professional experiences. A more interactive environmentthat provides teachers with opportunity for structured reflection and discussion with colleagues isneeded. A support-led rather than by package-led form of distance learning is necessary. TheVirtualMedibotics™ program has been designed to provide pre-defined web-based instructionwith
ENGR 392 on the impact of engineering on society andthe environment. These courses illustrate the ways CES harnessed the potential of the destabilization thenew accreditation practices and standards created by implementing and evaluating a novelapproach to teaching engineering students how to incorporate ethical, legal, and socialconsiderations into engineering design courses. Borrowing from the literature on constructivetechnology assessment and responsible research and innovation, we have developed a three-partprocess that walks engineering students engaged in project design courses through the process ofincorporating these considerations into the research and design phases of their projects.Following the literature on social
). Her research studies the synthesis, characterization, environmental impact, and human health impact of optically quantum dots. Denise is currently a National Science Foundation AGEP Fellow, a Meyerhoff Graduate Fellow, and a research member of the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. Prior to her time at UMBC, Denise earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Bachelor of Science in Forensic Science from the University of New Haven in West Haven, Connecticut in May 2015. Contact information: dwill3@umbc.edu.Mrs. Yarazeth Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Yarazeth Medina is a USM PROMISE AGEP Program Coordinator for Graduate Student Development and Postdoctoral Affairs. She earned her BA in
Student Learning OutcomesAbstractThis paper presents an initiative of an engineering curriculum enhancement and an example ofcollaborative junior student’s project development, based on the enhanced curriculum. The maingoal of this research is to integrate the best practices from the American engineering educationprograms into existing engineering curriculum, and to study the effectiveness of theenhancement, made up of a number of new focus areas in critical thinking and practical problemsolving.The research is carried out to study the feasibility and effectiveness of newly designed projectcollaborations between an American professor and a Chinese student, involved in a juniorproject. American professor helps to integrate successful American
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completion of this project would lead to the creation of a pre-engineering program relationship with other universities within three years and our ownengineering technology-related Masters of Science degree offered through Bluefield StateCollege by the end of the five-years if adequately funded.CART will incorporate advances in science and engineering knowledge into coursesand laboratories by utilizing the latest digital tools for creating, exchanging, presentingand communicating architectural space utilization, schematic designs, presentations, andworking drawings. This activity is vital to the proper delivery of any state of the artarchitectural program curriculum. The CART-CMS webmaster will work with programfaculty to research and develop best
was an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia, where she was co-director of the interdisciplinary engineering education research Collaborative Lounge for Un- derstanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER). In her research, she is interested in understanding how engineering students develop their professional identity, the role of emo- tion in student learning, and synergistic learning. A recent research project uncovers the narratives of exemplary engineering faculty who have successfully transitioned to student-centered teaching strategies. She co-designed the environmental engineering synthesis and design studios and the design spine for the mechanical engineering program at
feature allows students to learn at their own p ace, creating amore flexible and responsive learning experience.3 MethodologyThis research introduces a structured, multi-step framework tailored to enhance the learning experience ofundergraduate students studying NLP in Figure 1. The methodology combines theoretical instruction withinteractive tools, interdisciplinary case studies, and targeted applications in low-resource languages. Withdiverse teaching methods and innovative features, the framework addresses both the technical aspects andethical considerations inherent to NLP, aiming to give students a well-rounded understanding of the field.3.1 Research QuestionsA. What combination of theoretical and practical instruction best facilitates
persistence in an engineering major at a university. Despite current researchthat identifies best practices for STEM interventions that support the formation of youngwomen’s STEM identity (AAUW, 2010), a persistent research gap exists on how women’sexperiences affect their decision to enter and persist in engineering. Increased knowledge aboutwomen’s K-14 experiences, including the supports that may have influenced persistence, willprovide additional insight into how to construct an environment that encourages young women toenter and persist in engineering majors.This mixed-methods sequential study utilized a survey and a focus group to provide insight intofemale students’ feelings of self-efficacy and perceptions of the academic, social, and