Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac Heizelman, University of North Dakota; McKenna Rose Matt

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

discussed using a very high level of active learning by thestudents. Thus students are actively involved in the learning process, giving them the ability tomaster the topic in a way that they can understand and apply it [2]. Students apply this newknowledge by presenting it to their peers. Once the students feel they understand the topic theymake evidence of their knowledge in whatever format best suits them, such as a short video ofthem explaining the topic with graphics or even making a detailed comic from scratch explainingthe topic. This proof of understanding is then uploaded to a token in an online proprietarylearning management system. As stated by professors who started an IBL program at NDSU,“To evaluate that token, peers provide blind

Conference Session

Improving Retention & Self-Efficacy through Experiential Learning and Research Programs

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Lynn Nelson, University of Texas at San Antonio; Karina Ivette Vielma, The University of Texas at San Antonio; JoAnn Browning, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Diversity

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college student participation as well as30% Black and Hispanic students. The NHERI-REU Program also collects qualitative and quantitative data on the progressof students’ preparation of scholarly work including their self-efficacy and confidence levelsthroughout the program. This paper will include quantitative pre- and post-program data to showstudents’ increased confidence and levels of self-efficacy. An important element of the program is the multiple points of support for students. Thesesupports include faculty, graduate students, peer, and program mentors. The structure of thesupport system and the community building activities throughout the REU program also includecareer development workshops, a NHERI faculty and professional

Conference Session

Improving Retention & Self-Efficacy through Experiential Learning and Research Programs

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sydney Donohue, University of New Mexico; Kamryn G. Zachek; Alex Webster, University of New Mexico; Timothy L. Schroeder; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

resources research and interested in building acommunication project related to their own work. The students were asked to write a 300-wordstatement about what water resources research they were conducting, who their current facultymentor was, why they were interested in applying for the fellowship, and their ideas for acommunication project. The application portal remained open for one month. Approximately 1/3 of therespondents indicated that they applied after having the Fellowship opportunity presented tothem in one of their classes. The other 2/3 of the students applied after being told about theopportunity directly by a professor or peer. In the first year of the GC WSC Fellowship, 12 applications were received, 12 offerswere made

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luiz A. DaSilva, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Liza Wilson Durant, George Mason University; Jordan Mason; Sarah Hayes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

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telecommunications chairholder at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and director of CONNECT – the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Future Communications and Network. DaSilva is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to cognitive networking and to resource management in wireless networks. He pioneered the application of game theory to analyze and design wireless networks, authoring the first book on the topic. He is also responsible for seminal work on cognitive networking and spectrum and network sharing. He has authored two books, more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, and is a frequent keynote speaker and invited lecturer around the world. He has also been an IEEE

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Appiah-Kubi, University of Dayton; Phil Doepker; James Brothers, University of Dayton

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semester. In addition,students complete two peer reviews for each project they work on. Moreover, their writing andoral communication skills are assessed through weekly project updates and final presentations.Weekly reading quizzes are also developed from the biography of Steve Jobs (by WalterIsaacson), The Secret of Apollo (by Stephen B. Johnson), and Inviting Disaster: Learning fromthe edge of technology (by James R Chiles). The Biography of Steve Jobs provides a greatexample of the importance of collaboration in innovation and entrepreneurship. Students whojoin the program read this book during their first year in the program. Those students who areable and permitted to do a second year in the program read and take quizzes from Johnson’sbook

Conference Session

Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Daniel Munro, University of Toronto; Virginia Hall; Tracy L. Ross, Actua

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

utilization and application of their STEM knowledge. Networking with their peers - bothwithin their program and the national network - amplifies the experience and has the potential tocontribute to future career development. Participants, in the work itself, are given the opportunityto take ownership in the development of curriculum development and classroom management,building potential for self-efficacy development. Finally, the three interconnected strands holdmany connections to the Actua Future Skills Framework; “delivering results” requiresintellectual development, “working with others” draws from networking skills and institutionalknowledge; and future readiness draws from the three strands and makes connections to theparticipant’s future