artifacts, and informal conversations supplemented the primary data byproviding context for the observed heuristics and demonstrating the eventual outcomes ofheuristics.Table 1. Study participants Pseudonym Position Department Area(s) of Expertise Michael Associate Electrical and computer Previous and current course professor engineering instructor; embedded systems Sydney Full professor Electrical and computer Previous course instructor, engineering embedded systems Freddie Associate Industrial design; electrical Engineering education
reports on three specific themesthat have emerged from our initial analysis of two interviews with a single research subject. Assuch, our account uses a single case approach, following in the footsteps of groundbreakingscholarship such as Foor et al.’s “ethnography of the particular” which recounts the livedexperiences of one female, multi-minority student pursuing an engineering degree.10 Our dataanalysis is ongoing, and in separate publications we will report results more specificallyconcerned with boundary spanning, including types of boundaries, boundary spanning roles andactivities, and competency demands experienced by early career engineers. Our larger objectivefor this paper is to explore the utility of investigating the realities of
solving process. Simulations enable active manipulation and reinforced practicesupporting students to learn the concepts better.AcknowledgementsThis research was supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under the awards#DMR1305694 and #EEC1449238. Page 26.185.16References1 Emmott, S. & Rison, S. Towards 2020 science. Science in Parliament 65, 31-33 (2008).2 de Jong, T., Linn, M. C. & Zacharia, Z. C. Physical and Virtual Laboratories in Science and Engineering Education. Science 340, 305-308 (2013).3 Roth, W. M. & McGinn, M. K. Graphing: Cognitive ability or practice? Science Education 81, 91-106
*** AMR of college/university personnel before college -0.07 0.03 * Perception of Future 0.19 0.06 ** Connectedness -0.15 0.06 * Being a Female -0.35 0.15 * College expense provided by parent(s), guardian(s), or family -0.13 0.05 ** College expense provided by oneself -0.18 0.06 ** R2=0.23, p-value=3.91e-07 Legend: * = <0.05, **= <0.01, ***= <0.001The entire model is significant
) family arrangement. This assumption appears in theuse of ‘mother’ and ‘father’ as identifiers throughout questions about parents and guardians.Problems with typical approachThe shift of traditional family structures has been well documented31, as has the changing shapeof the modern family30. However, documentation of the shift in familial demographics has notalways been adapted to quantitative instruments seeking to understand more about collegestudents’ parents/guardians. Items seeking information about parent(s)/guardian(s) are used tounderstand students’ family life, to understand their access to education in the form of socialcapital32, and as a proxy for SES. Such items often assume a traditional familial structure: Onefather or male
to explore variation in how engineeringstudents experience innovation. Phenomenography is an established qualitative research methodfor identifying a limited number of distinct ways individuals interact with a particularphenomenon6,7. These distinct ways of experiencing the phenomenon are regarded as resultingfrom the interplay between the characteristics of the individual and the forum(s) through whichthe individual experienced the phenomenon. Several important phenomenographic studies haveoccurred in engineering education over the last few years, including investigations of thevariation in ways engineering students and engineers experience human-centered design8,sustainable design9, and design10. This study aims to continue in that
% Average B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8Figure 6. Comparison of stages for the VBioR teamsFigure 7 shows the proportion of words spoken in the DMM by person, including the coach andall three students. All of the VBioR teams had three students. There is variation from team toteam according to team preparation and prior knowledge, team dynamics and the team’sinteraction with the coach. For example, in team B4’s coaching session only two of the studentstalked during the meeting and the coach spoke more than 80% of the words. By comparison,with team B2 the coach spoke much less, around 60% of the words, while the three studentsspoke more substantial amounts of 10% to 15% each. 100% 90% 80% 70% 60
of members ○ Service projects ○ Affiliation with local events and maker fairs ○ Partnerships with affiliated local businesses ● Location ○ External regulation of space (school v/s warehouse) ○ Public or private space ○ Zoning of area ○ Proximity to public transit6. Conclusion and Future WorkNumerous literature sources on makerspaces report on variety of attributes and best practices.The various qualitative and quantitative makerspace attributes were grouped together to identifythe four core elements of makerspaces were identified from literature that could be used tocategorize and classify makerspaces, namely Physical Assets, Culture, Sustainability andInfluence
objectives. Theself- and peer-assessments prompted students to reflect on what each peer teacher had doneeffectively in their respective lesson and what could be improved.There were three primary goals for the inclusion of these assessments. First, they were used as amechanism to encourage active listening and participation by the students while they were intheir peer teaching groups. Second, with more peer teaching groups working simultaneously thanthe number of instructors, the assessments were used by the instructor(s) to gain further insightinto each student’s lesson. Third, they further promoted the role of students as teachers throughreflection and assessment of the quality and content of the lessons of both themselves and theirpeers. The
, & W. Pinar (Eds.), How we work (pp. 242–261). New York: Peter Lang.6. Mora, P. (2008). Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle. UNM Press.7. Kasun, G. S. (2014). Hidden knowing of working-class transnational Mexican families in schools: Bridge- building, Nepantlera knowers. Ethnography and Education, 9(3), 313-327.8. Anzaldúa, G., & Keating, A. (2013). This bridge we call home: Radical visions for transformation. New York: Routledge.9. Aguilar-Valdez, J. R., López Leiva, C. A., Roberts-Harris, D., Torres-Velásquez, D., Lobo, G., & Westby, C. (2013). Ciencia en Nepantla: the journey of Nepantler@s in science learning and teaching. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 8(4), 821-858.10. Foor, C. E
for Preparedness an engineering degree; students discussed their preparedness in term of their math and/or science coursework Keywords/phrases included: math, science, understanding topics, chemistry requirements, science requirements, math topics, understanding math, wake-up call, reality 4 Financial Impacts Students discussed financial implications of various schools, degrees, or programs Keywords/phrases included: financial, cost(s), differences between public and private, in-state, out-of-state
Systematic Innovation in Engineering Education: Ensuring U.S. engineering has the right people with the right talent for a global society. Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education.Borrego, M., Culter, S., Prince, M., Henderson, C., & Froyd J. E. (2013). Fidelity of implementation of research-based instructional strategies (RBIS) in engineering science courses. Journal of Engineering Education, 102, 294–425.Borrego, M., Froyd, J. E., & Hall, T. S. (2010). Diffusion of engineering education innovations: A survey of awareness and adoption rates in U.S. engineering departments. Journal of Engineering Education. 99(3), 185-207Bryne, B. M. (2006). Structural equation modeling with EQS
in a course. Examining students’ self-reportedconfusion also allows us to assess their understanding with regard to procedural or conceptualissues in statics. We can distinguish whether students’ questions focus on deeper conceptualissues or on more surface procedural tasks. This distinction is relevant, as recent work suggeststhat conceptual questions are most helpful for improving understanding24.In this work-in-progress, we provide initial findings with respect to students’ capacity foraccurate monitoring in statics. Data are drawn from an ongoing study in which students wereasked to reflect and write about their problem-solving ability in an engineering statics course3.Specifically, they were asked to identify the source(s) of their
sevenquestions on the topic of drift. Broad questions were used first (e.g., #1 and #2 below), moving to more specific questionsthat capture other aspects of the phenomenon (e.g., #3 below). Page 26.558.5 1. Describe the movement of the electron(s) in the semiconductor when the electric field is on and off. Use as much detail as possible. 2. Based on your knowledge of physics and electrons, what determines how and where the electrons move in the semiconductor when the electric field is on/off? Use as much detail as possible. 3. Imagine an electron, in a similar semiconductor, under the same scenario, moving again. How
0.40 0.59 (α = 0.86) involving technology (q) Identifying technical solutions that are as 0.40 0.50 simple as possible (s) Designing and conducting experiments to 0.55 0.55 test an idea (y) Searching for innovative ways to do things 0.38 0.50 (v) Improving a design to make it more efficient 0.46 0.47 (faster, better, cheaper) (z) Using technology to solve environmental 0.41 0.68 problems (aa) Creating prototypes to test an idea 0.78 0.36 (cc) Designing a system, a part/component of a 0.68
pastwork [1] to communicate the same ideas about types of behavior to the participants. How canwe know whether participants understood the same concepts that the vignettes were intendedto portray? Each time a participant indicated that a particular individual on their teamexhibited a particular behavior based on their reading of the vignette, one of the open-endedquestions asked was: “In what way do you feel ______'s behavior during the project is/wassimilar to the passage above?” These responses were randomized and de-identified. The web-based computer software Dedoose was used to code all 366 excerpts based on the 11 originalbehavior definitions independently of which behavior the participant had intended to indicate.A given excerpt could be
theoretical frameworks and models weredeveloped as related to young adults’ epistemological development. These models orframeworks manifested further expansions and exploration of students’ epistemologicaldevelopment, such as Belenky et al. ’s work in the Women’s Way of Knowing [9] [10], King andKitchener’s Reflective Judgement Model[11] and Kuhn’s Argumentative Thinking[12]. In spite ofthe unique features of each theoretical model and framework, they all demonstrated a similardevelopmental trend which was first delineated in Perry’s theory [13] [14], that is, from a dualistic,right-or wrong vintage point to a contextual, relativistic understanding.In engineering education, quite a number of researchers have tried to explore students’epistemological
, “Engineering Major Selection: An Examination of Initial Choice and Switching Throughout the First Year,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2016.[2] S. M. Lord, M. W. Ohland, R. A. Layton, and M. M. Camacho, “Beyond Pipeline and Pathways: Ecosystem Metrics,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 108, no. 1, pp. 32–56, 2019.[3] M. K. Orr, C. E. Brawner, M. W. Ohland, and R. A. Layton, “The Effect of Required Introduction to Engineering Courses on Retention and Major Selection,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2013.[4] M. K. Orr, C. E. Brawner, S. M. Lord, M. W. Ohland, R. A. Layton, and R. A. Long
with the conventional output/input ratio analysis. Defining basicefficiency as the ratio of weighted sum of outputs to the weighted sum of inputs, the relativeefficiency score of a test DMU p can be obtained by solving the following DEA ratio model (CCR)proposed by Charnes, et al.1: Page 12.697.4 3 s ∑v k =1 k y kp max m ∑u x
first phases of the study (conducted during 2011),which addresses research questions one, two and four.1.1 Background of the Premier AwardThe Premier Award competition was instituted with two primary goals: to recognize and rewardthe efforts of faculty (and students) developing courseware and to provide an external measure ofthe quality of the courseware.14 The Premier Award was created as a program within theSynthesis Coalition, one of the NSF engineering education coalitions funded in the 1990’s,which focused on improving engineering education by designing, implementing and assessingapproaches to undergraduate engineering education that emphasized multidisciplinary synthesis,teamwork and communication, hands-on and laboratory experiences
AC 2010-1518: REFINING A CRITICAL THINKING RUBRIC FOR ENGINEERINGPatricia Ralston, University of Louisville Dr. Patricia A. S. Ralston is Chair of the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the University of Louisville. She holds a joint appointment in Engineering Fundamentals and in Chemical Engineering. Dr. Ralston teaches undergraduate engineering mathematics and is currently involved, with other Speed faculty, in educational research on effective use of Tablet PCs in engineering education and the incorporation of critical thinking in engineering education. Her fields of expertise include process modeling, simulation, and process control.Cathy Bays, University of Louisville
0.250 1.284 0.076 *** Family arranged for science tutoring 0.643 1.903 0.190 ***Predictors Father – Engineer -0.507 0.602 0.181 *** Mother – Engineer - - - n/s Sibling – Engineer 0.798 2.222 0.142 *** Other relative – Engineer 0.456 1.578 0.094 *** Mother/female guardian contributed to career
reader receives it. From atransaction perspective, on the other hand, reading is a dynamic process. Transaction beliefsemphasize the construction of knowledge by individuals (e.g., an item from the transactionsubscale: I enjoy interpreting what I read in a personal way).16, 17 When readers adopt atransaction model, they develop a dynamic response to the author, and take an active role in the Page 22.636.3construction of meaning, drawing on personal experiences, and critiquing the author‟s message.According to transaction beliefs, text means different things to different people, and allows for anumber of possible interpretations. A person mentally
protocol was also used to alleviate inherent issues thatarise when attempting to use verbal protocol to examine “team” interaction including tacitgestures not verbalized and written communication, such as notes and sketches 20. Page 15.869.7 The playground problem coding scheme was congruent with the approach used in priorstudies 7, 21-22. The data were coded into these nine categories presented below by Atman et al.8: Design Activity Example(s) Coded Example(s)(PD) PROBLEM DEFINITION Reading, re-reading, or rehashing “That means we’ll the
, while consulting a third expert in survey development helpspreserve face validity. Further validity was gained through factor analysis. We conclude that our Table 2: Pattern Matrix, Five Factors Table 3: S tructure Matrix, Five Factors Factor FactorItem 1 2 3 4 5 Construct Item 1 2 3 4 5 Construct1 .722 Interest 1
average of students in the aerospace engineering classes indicatesopportunity for better explanation of the importance of the math classes in their upper-level mathand major courses.AcknowledgementsThe research was support by NSF Grant, Improving Undergraduate Students Education (IUSE)Grant # 1712156. The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Ana Tameru, Dr. Kelley Guest,Dr. Youngsoo Kim, and Dr. Zahid Baig who also implemented these strategies in their remotelytaught classes.References[1] Huss, J. A. & Eastep, S. (2016). Okay, Our Courses Are Online, But Are They ADACompliant? An Investigation of Faculty Awareness of Accessibility at a Midwestern University.Inquiry in Education: Vol. 8 (2), Article 2. Retrieved from:http
asperspective, experience, and specialized knowledge, which, combined, may match thecomplexity of their joint challenge (Beyerlein, M., Han, S. J., & Prasad, M, 2017). Teameffectiveness emerges when the interaction process enables those unique qualities to blend into awhole, with each member engaged. However, few teams have the skills or process habits thatenable a high level of blending to occur. Therefore, this study’s focus is to identify themicro-level patterns of behavior (habits) in student teams that enable full realization of the valueof member diversity.Diversity is commonly defined as a characteristic of groups of two or more people and usuallyindicates demographic differences among group members. By leveraging diversity, teams mayachieve
relate. I pay attention to my teacher or whomever is speaking. I follow along with my teacher or whomever is speaking when they discuss examples. Passive I listen when my teacher or whomever is speaking. I follow along with the activities that take place during the course. I do not think about course content. Disengagement I do not pay attention to course content. I focus my attention on things other than course content.References[1] M. Prince, “Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 223–231, Jul. 2004.[2] J. J. Appleton, S. L. Christenson, D. Kim, and A. L. Reschly, “Measuring
.036 5.370 1.114 25.894 satm 5.036 1 .025 1.001 1.000 1.002 sex(1) 1.117 1 .291 .656 .300 1.434 minority 7.307 2 .026 minority * Completed 2 or more workshops 4.496 2 .106 gender * Completed 2 or more workshops .020 1 .886 .853 .096 7.583 Constant 4.198 1 .040 2.322a Variable(s) entered