. He received a BSE in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan in 2018. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Assessing and Communicating Professional Competency Development through Experiential LearningThis is a work-in-progress paper submitted to the ASEE Cooperative & Experiential EducationDivision.AbstractA new experiential learning initiative at a large R1 institution seeks to provide students with aframework to intentionally explore learning opportunities, meaningfully engage in experiences,iteratively reflect on their learning, and clearly communicate their development of one or morekey professional competencies
, typically taken in the second half oftheir junior year or the first half of their senior year. Students in the course wrote an essay, as arequired assignment, in which they reflected on the links between their co-op work and thecourse, and were asked for permission to use those essays in the professor’s research on thistopic. Analysis of the essays shows that students typically did see connections; in many cases,these were connected to the course content. However, in other cases, students noted that they hadlearned problem-solving skills, time management, or other skills that were not directly connectedto the class content, which were also useful in their co-op assignments and future careers. Theresults of this work can be used to motivate students
practices soccer and tennis.Dr. Molly J. Scanlon, Nova Southeastern University Molly J. Scanlon, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Writing and Communication in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) at Nova Southeastern University. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in first year experience, composition, writing studies, and visual rhetoric. Research interests include visual rhetoric, identity construction, and experiential learning pedagogy, with publications in Composition Studies, Reflections, and ImageText; and presentations at Frontiers in Education, Conference on College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of English, Florida Distance
and Employers (NACE) [6]Future Skills Framework DevelopmentActua developed the Future Skills Framework to capture and articulate the instructor experience,and to provide a foundation for additional support to member programs and their instructors. Inaddition, a strengthened instructor experience framework is seen to have potential for improvedrecruitment, training and retention of future instructors, increased transferability of the instructorexperience to future career opportunities, and increased quality and consistency in youthengagement by the network. The potential to shape a national, post-secondary work integratedlearning experience reflects activity by universities and affiliated organizations to betterdocument the contribution of
education. This DBR approach also reflects Kolb’s [5] four stages of experientiallearning (experience, reflection, conceptualize, and test) as the program developers, faculty, andstudents learn together through each cycle of development. Design & Planning Problem Ideation/ Refined Learning (ProjectStatement Selection Model Objectives mgmt) Data CollectionProgram Design Design
graduationrequirements. The goal of the initiative (the Experiential Learning Framework) is to providestudents with a framework to intentionally explore learning opportunities, engage meaningfullyin experiences, reflect on what they have learned, and communicate the value of the corecompetencies they have developed. As most Michigan Engineering undergraduate studentsparticipate in experiential activities, the framework aims to provide students with richer andmore meaningful experiences and more intentional engagement and reflection. This paperprovides an overview of activities to date, key challenges, and possible paths forward.Introduction and OverviewNumerous institutions are focusing on expanding experiential learning opportunities (e.g., client-based
technical skills.Although these are necessary for career success and productive work, students must also developcapacities for authentic engineering practices within authentic engineering communities.Specifically, they must develop practices for engaging ill-structured, ambiguous problems, andnavigating complexity and uncertainty through careful, creative application of deep knowledgethat characterize engineering design1. And they must do so in collaboration with others,communicating successfully with diverse stakeholders in formal and informal settings2. Finally,they must cultivate the ability to reflect on the quality of their innovation and communicationefforts3.The NSF and other sponsors fund research experiences for undergraduates (REU
academic and social needs.2.2. Engagement-based learning2.2.1. Experiential learning. Experiential learning allows students to apply specific conceptslearned in the formal environment to the informal environment through opportunities such asinternships, apprenticeships, competitions, clubs, practica, and cooperative education [9].According to Kolb and Fry [10], experiential learning theory is a four-part cycle. 1. The learner has concrete experience with the content being taught. 2. The learner reflects on the experience by comparing it to prior experiences. 3. Based on experience and reflection, the learner develops new ideas about the content being taught. 4. The learner acts on the new ideas by experimenting in an
serves as a learning space and as a showcase of best practices related to sustainable design and construction;• Increase their interest and self-efficacy in sustainable design;• Connect concepts related to tiny house design across disciplines;• Compare and contrast interdisciplinary design options and decisions;• Reflect on their learning.Students in six different courses on campus are collaborating to design the tiny house. This pastsummer, students in Architecture I investigated different sites at the Organic Farm and preparedsite plans for 3 different sites. This winter, students in Architecture II and III will work onarchitectural designs and plans using one of the sites proposed by the Architecture I students. Inaddition, students in an
aninternational branch campus in the Middle East. Over the course of three semesters, a technicaland business writing course was redesigned by integrating prototyping, collaboration, andentrepreneurship skills.Drawing upon survey data, we evaluate the effectiveness of our interdisciplinary, integratedapproach to engineering education. From the perspective of writing and communication, studentsgained a stronger understanding of workplace audiences and expectations. Additionally, theexperiential learning focus in the course engaged students in deeper reflective practices in bothwriting and engineering.We conclude with recommendations for others redesigning courses and curricula for 21st centuryliteracies and global entrepreneurship. We also examine future
deployment of 15+ courses used at over 10 universities. In addition he leads the technical content for the Electrical and Computer Engineer capstone projects course at OSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Longitudinal Study to Develop and Evaluate the Impacts of a“Transformational” Undergraduate ECE Design Program: Study Results and Best Practices ReportAcknowledgement: The authors are grateful for support provided by the National ScienceFoundation grant DUE 1347817. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation
engineeringdisciplines, and the context of their research varied considerably. Some students were part oflarge, established experimental laboratories while other students worked individually or in smallgroups on computational or theoretical projects. As this course was launched in Fall 2020,students in this class experienced the additional challenge of starting college (and undergraduateresearch) remotely during a global pandemic. The design and content of this course wereevaluated using anonymous feedback and a review of reflective discussion posts in order todetermine whether the course supported the stated learning goals. This evaluation indicates thatstudents found the course material helpful in understanding their role as undergraduate researchassistants
viable solutions, we determined the most reasonablesolution comprised of four unique groups. After the four-group solution was selected, therepresentative sorts, distinguishing statements, and interview data were used to develop thegroup profile.There were some overall trends in the data. First, the specific co-op role and the dailyresponsibilities heavily influenced student views on learning. Students who were working asintegral part of a team ranked statements related to teamwork higher than those who wereoperating more independently. The influence of role on learning is to be expected as learning isoften context specific.Additionally, many of the participants disagreed with statements that included the phrase “whenI reflected and thought
; apply engineering principles to multiple open-ended problems; and use reflection andmetacognition as ways to promote technical knowledge transfer [12].Professional learning happens across multiple domains. Professional responsibility is modeledand practiced throughout as timeliness, respect, appropriate dress, appropriate language are allmade explicit with continuous feedback coming from faculty and staff. Teamwork skills areprovided in seminars and practiced in design teams. Multiple workshops per week address topicssuch as: inclusion, ethical action, leadership, reflection, management, happiness, life-workbalance, overcoming adversity, and communication. Each week during the EDP students writethree one-page learning journal entries, most of
, and reflection. This process of building episodic1 Departments in the College of Engineering and Computer Science include biomedical and chemical engineering,civil and environmental engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, and mechanical and aerospaceengineering.memory (consciously remembered experiences from memory) helps form a continuity in thelearning process [28], [29]. The students were able to experience feelings of their own and of thestakeholders and end users they encountered during class and the data collection field trips. Thestudents’ reflections focused their learning on what worked and didn't work in terms of their datacollection tools, data collection methodology, and how they functioned as a team after their
learning studentsdevelop technical skills and learn about surveying techniques and methods. In addition, throughreview and reflection of their surveys, students are able to reinforce concepts learned in lectures.Outdoor labs have several challenges such as being affected by weather leading to cancellationsthat disrupt the educational process. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced newchallenges and forced virtualization of outdoor labs. Development of virtual and immersivetechnologies in the past decade have sparked applications in engineering education, offeringviable alternatives, and enhancing traditional instructional approaches. Indeed, virtual reality andgamification technologies offer different learning approaches while various
virtual internship intervention and technology, described in detail byJames, Humez and Laufenburg [12], leverages a purpose built technology platform to supportemployer partner feedback [15], structure student's reflection and metacognition [16], [17], andprovides educators with real-time learning analytics to support students and employer partnerswhen required [18], [12].To better address the needs of non-traditional and traditionally underserved minority students,the research team developed a set of design principles that attend to these students' particularneeds. The design principles include: • The ability of a student to participate in the intervention without leaving existing full- time work • The ability to complete work
intimate survey underduress. Regardless, the survey participation for freshmen students who competed the coursewas 98%.The TTI survey was administered again in the junior year in the context of Professional Practiceof Engineering, which is a required lecture-based course that students take after completion of aminimum of one co-op semester. The survey was required and was used in a significantassignment in which students reflect on their strengths and weaknesses and on how to leveragethe former and mitigate the latter. The survey participation for junior students who completed thecourse was 100%.In order to compensate for the change in the student make-up, a pairwise longitudinalcomparison was conducted on the twenty engineering students (14 males
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She has been involved in several major engineering education initia- tives including the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), as well as the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education. Helen holds an undergraduate degree in communication from UCLA and a PhD in communication with a minor in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research and scholarship focus on engineering and entrepreneurship education; the pedagogy of portfolios and reflec- tive practice in higher education; and redesigning how learning is recorded and
must complete 2 courses, oneduring their first term of co-op experience and the other in the last 4 months of their finalterm. Students also must write a report at the end of each term. The courses are centeredaround reflection and portfolio management, while the term paper is a description of their joband is reflective in nature. Similar to other schools, there is a fee associated with both of thesecourses for access to the portal, much like other co-op programs. Students also choose to do internships outside of the co-op program. Although theseinternships are within their field of study, they are not registered with the coop program.There are various logistical and personal reasons for this decision and are not fully discussedin this
deliverable had a list of requirements announced two weeks before it wasdue. The deliverables were graded as a team based on how well the team was meeting therequirements. The grading components for each deliverable included the documentation,presentation, an individual reflection paragraph and the source code. Since the CSSE students hadweekly reviews, they were able to keep up with the schedule and meet the requirements. All theCSSE teams completed the web servers utilizing AWS or Microsoft Azure, and completed thegraphical user interface for visualizing the sensor data. 5. Reflective CritiquesPrior to the end of the course, an anonymous survey was administered to students to gauge theiropinions about the collaboration. The survey was developed
and development of professional skills as a result. The paper also considersfuture possibilities of the project, where the initial developmental phases were to ensure sustainability,we reflect on scalability of the AREND and similar projects to large cohorts.2. Theoretical framework2.1. A blended project and problem-based learning approachVarious authors have studied the differences between project and problem-based learning (PBL)[4]-[6]. Project-based learning typically is a more real-world directed application of knowledge whileproblem-based work takes a shorter time and is more directed to acquiring knowledge. The students’ability to be self-directed plays an important role in project-based learning in engineering since itrequires
. Emmett is a certified Project Management Professional and since 2018 has supported strategic global and online initiatives in engineering, including developing online modules to train global engineering competencies. He is the author of the books 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 (University of Chicago, 2018). His humanities scholarship has appeared in the journals Environmental
andidentity, and encouraging career-related reflection. This review provides insight into the nuance ofthe breadth of students’ experiences in student organizations to inform future work examining thecontextual influence of experiential learning on engineering students’ professional development.IntroductionEngineering education programs aim to prepare graduates to transition into the 21st centuryworkforce as professional engineers with a breadth of technical and interpersonal skills and a senseof professional responsibility. Multiple competing influences have contributed to engineeringeducation’s current overcrowded curriculum, which largely focuses on technical knowledge [1].This technical focus is increasingly being questioned amidst calls for
safely and competentlyassist in the work, and then properly describe the activity and its importance.The RS staff concentrates on a reflective write-up of the experiential experience during thefollowing term in the manditory seminar course. Four of the Fall 17 cohort have completed theirLSAMP project write-ups for publication in an undergraduate journal [41] [42] [43] [44]. One ofthe six member Fall 17 cohort dropped from the program due to incompatibilities with her majorand the summer RS programming, prior to the LSAMP experience. A second member of the Fall17 cohort changed degree objective into a non-STEM major during the following fall and did notcomplete the write-up portion of her RS commitement. One of the non-residential students in
as enablers in thereinterpretation of cognitive theories and teaching techniques for the development ofcriticality. Our challenge as educators is how to employ innovative, virtual and technologicaltools that boost creativity and challenge students to solve complex problems usingunexpected solutions; appealing to the extensive use of their digital literacy skills [16]:Photo-visual; Reproduction; Branching; Information; Socio-emotional; and Real-time.The incorporation of reflective practices through spaces for dialogue in fully onlineenvironments should be carried out throughout the engineering program as an example ofcognitive and metacognitive tools using the technological platforms that are best adapted toeach subject. The objective of this
process [22].Kolb’s model draws heavily upon the concept of learning styles and several of the forgoingsuppositions have elements of learning style doctrine within them. According to Healey andJenkins [24], learning styles reflect a diversity of environmental considerations including thoseattributable to gender and cultural differences. Willingham, et al. [25] and others [26]–[28],however, contend that there are inherent problems with the learning styles theories and that theylack scientific rigor.Kolb’s model suggests that experiential learning can be characterized as a four-phase cyclicmodel. Under this model, learners (1) have an experience, (2) reflect on the experience, (3)conceptualize what they have experienced into a model or theory and
academia (professor,postdoc, research support, etc.) 6Research in industry 10Table 1. Career objectives of respondents (n=14).More than one choice allowed per respondent.Most responding lab members aspire to work in industry either in research or non-researchpositions, while few aim at becoming professors. This inclination may be a reflection of thestrong collaboration and co-op environment present in both our school and in this lab, whichworks closely with industrial partners on research problems with concrete applications.3.2 Setting up the SC-CoPThis pilot project was our first collaboration with an entire research group, and we decided to usean organic management style for its execution: we did not impose a hard
of collaborative lessons, focus on student reflection, importance of intrinsicmotivation).(Jonassen ,1991). However, any learning pedagogy has its limitations. For example, Problem-basedlearning(PBL) has been criticized as a curriculum that is often poorly designed and implemented, and apedagogy that lacks objective-aligned assessment methods (Boud & Feletti, 1997). Other research found,without proper scaffolding, consistent feedback, or context, students in PBL classrooms have shown lessprogress than students in traditional classrooms ( Savery, 2006,Norman & Schmidt, 1992;). Most supporters ofdiscovery-based learning acknowledge the main critiques of the pedagogy as fellow: a lack of teacher support,teacher guidance, content focus
remote sensing were initiated by funds from Connectiv Power [7] andNASA [8] at UMES and sustained through support from the University System of Maryland(USM) by way of proposals developed by the primary author. Subsequently, the efforts have beenexpanded and integrated with agricultural automation and remote sensing with support fromNational Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA/USDA) and MDSGC/NASA. The currentframework of AIRSPACES project as outlined by the expanded form Autonomous InstrumentedRobotic Sensory Platforms to Advance Creativity and Engage Students not only reflects the earlieriteration of the project title -- with the acronym AIRSPACES2 that combined experiential learningand research efforts titled Aerial Imaging and Remote