Paper ID #11547Design of an extended engineering curriculum to increase retention and eq-uityProf. Diane Grayson, University of Pretoria Diane Grayson is Extraordinary Professor of Physics at the University of Pretoria and Director: Institu- tional Audits at the Council on Higher Education, which is responsible for quality assurance in higher education in South Africa. She designed the ENGAGE program when she was academic development manager in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria. ¨Dr. Erika Muller, University of Pretoria, RSA Dr Erika M¨uller
Program, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Uni-versity of Colorado at Boulder Nick Stites is an engineer with the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Col- Page 26.405.1 orado Boulder. He also serves as an adjunct instructor for the General Engineering Plus program and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Nick holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and is currently pursuing a PhD in engineering education. His research interests include how technology can enhance teaching and learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
an educative technique to aidstudents in assigning meaning to experiences. Educators have the unique opportunity to take anactive role in helping to facilitate reflection through many activities. Activities that support Page 26.1196.2reflection are diverse in nature and purpose in the classroom, but can be achieved by usingassorted methods including portfolios, reflective essays, journals, and other activities.5Many fields have investigated reflection as an integral part of their approaches to both their workand educative practices such as health sciences and human-computer interaction (HCI).6,7 Morerecently in engineering education
concept, an informed value system, a vision of a possible future, and as achallenge to business-as-usual, sustainability is complexity itself, over-determined. Evendefining it requires interdisciplinarity, and attempting to practice—to live it—in academiarequires the integration, or at least the involvement, of all parts of the college campus, a dynamicinteraction of research, operations, curriculum, and the lived experience of individuals andcommunities.46,47,48 And yet, again, failing to attempt to define for our students what we wantthem to learn about sustainability in all its complexity will only continue our students’unnecessary frustrations.Because it has taken us a few years to get our program in place, to organize previously
). Stagl et al. 15 summarizecurrent work in team leadership research and find that “the totality of research supports thisassertion; team leadership is critical to achieving both affective and behaviorally based teamoutcomes” (p. 172). Hill 16, supports this position in her team leadership chapter. In thedevelopment of their integrative team effectiveness framework, Salas et al.17 assert that leadershipplays a central role over the lifespan of the team, claiming that despite the complexities of teamleadership, “most would agree that team leaders and the leadership processes that they enact areessential to promoting team performance, adaptation, and effectiveness.”17 Additionally, Salas etal.17 assert that team leaders play an essential role due to
students), then integrate that advice into an action plan. • Students in a difficult circumstance are not always good at integrating and acting on advice. The UGO staff discovered that students often did not follow up with ODOS (which was always part of our advice), or if they did, subsequent follow-up with the UGO or ODOS was lacking. Students struggled to manage and act on the on-going conversations across the UGO and ODOS offices, especially when they are in a Page 26.1049.4 compromised state due to their circumstances. • ODOS was not near the engineering precinct. The ODOS offices are centrally located on
again.25-27 Thisknowledge reinforces the decision to administer peer evaluation in a formative way, allowingstudents to repeatedly receive feedback and try again within their groups. With each new attemptin using teamwork knowledge and skills, students receive peer feedback that can identify areasfor improvement and motivate future effort. This framework also presents a clear opportunity forrenewal if team members struggled due to conflict or free riding. Fourth, assessment should beintegrated into the curriculum and be perceived as a learning opportunity. According to Brew28: Assessment and learning must increasingly be viewed as one and the same activity; assessment must become an integral part of the learning process
Education, 37(2), 125-132.7. Andrews, T., & Patil, R. (2007). Information literacy for first-year students: An embedded curriculum approach. European Journal of Engineering Education, 32(3), 253-259.8. Berland, L., McKenna, W., & Peacock, S. B. (2012). Understanding Students' Perceptions on the Utility of Engineering Notebooks. Advances in Engineering Education, 3(2).9. Berndt, A., & Paterson, C. (2010). Global engineering, humanitarian case studies, and pedagogies of transformation. In Transforming Engineering Education: Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for Complex Global Environments, 2010 IEEE (pp. 1-19). IEEE.10. Brophy, S., Hodge, L., & Bransford, J. (2004, October). Work in progress
) the integration of different constructsassociated with workplace engineering practices that can enable us to propose an analyticalframework to investigate them concurrently. Curriculum at engineering schools should bebalanced with theoretical knowledge and promote the idea of coupling the content with real wordsituations30. Computational modeling and simulations are now highly relevant to solve these real Page 26.185.15world complex problems.The results suggest that the use of computer simulations can be helpful in the process of problemsolving enabling students to validate theoretical constructs. We recognize that other types ofintervention
Paper ID #11165A cross-sectional study of engineering students’ creative self-concepts: An ex-ploration of creative self-efficacy, personal identity, and expectationsDr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support
conciselyconvey technical information to people who do not have an engineering background. This alignswith the goal of The Engineer of 2020 and is important to consider in curriculum development inengineering. Similarly, the key areas that students feel least confident in can be consideredopportunities to help them learn. For example, we found the students do not feel confident inidentifying the audience for whom they are writing, expressing ideas clearly to others, clarifyingthe source of problems on teams when they arise, identifying verbal and non-verbal behaviorsthat may be due to cultural norms, and creating visuals that communicate concepts, narratives, orarguments.Communication instructors, we hope, can benefit from our study by developing
-directs the National Center for Cognition and Mathematics Instruction. He is a faculty member for the Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences. As part of his service to the nation, Dr. Nathan served on the National Academy of Engineering/National Research Council Commit- tee on Integrated STEM Education, and is currently a planning committee member for the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council workshop Sharing the Adventure with the Student: Exploring the Intersections of NASA Space Science and Education. At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Nathan holds affiliate appointments in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, the Department of
). Page 26.813.1420 May, G.L.,” The Effect of Rater Training on Reducing Social Style Bias in Peer Evaluation,” Business Communication Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 3, 297-313, September (2008).21 Ostafichuk, P.M., E.A. Croft, S.I. Green, G.S. Schajer and S.N. Rogak, “Analysis of Mech 2: An Award-Winning Second Year Mechanical Engineering Curriculum,” Proc. of EE2008, Loughborough, UK, July 2008.22 Michaelsen, L.K., M. Sweet, M., and D.X. Parmelee , Team-Based Learning: Small Group Learning’s Next Big Step. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (2008).23 Sibley, J. and P.M. Ostafichuk , Getting Started with Team-Based Learning, Stylus, Sterling, VA (2014).24 Ostafichuk, P.M., Hodgson, A.J
National and Institutional Responses to the Bologna Process: The Significance ofthe Danish CaseThe Bologna Process was initiated through a 1999 ministerial meeting involving the educationministers of 29 European countries. While expectations of professional labor mobilityaccompanied the Treaty of Maastricht, given the financial and monetary-policy orientation of theearly conversations about European integration, an explicit focus on higher education andworkforce development was absent from these conversations. The main concern behind Bolognawas that European universities, despite their reputation, were not producing the quantity orquality of graduates necessary for Europe to “succeed” in the global economy.2Following the general logic of economic
combination class with many scenario-based learning exercises and two main projects, it standsto benefit from structured, intense writing instruction for students. Barriers to InclusionOne of the most influential reasons that classes do not integrate more writing components intothe engineering curriculum is lack of time. This is addressed in “Adventures in ParagraphWriting,"5 which mentions that many engineering programs include writing education in a“bookended” fashion - in the freshman intro and senior capstone courses. The paper’s thesisindicates that more frequent, concise writing assignments based on course material will providestudents with beneficial exposure. The goal of this experiment was to provide
finite duration. 6. A learning community has 6-15 members, and ideally 8-12.The portrait of a learning community that emerges from these recommendations is of a programthat is highly integrated, supported, resourced and structured—a well-oiled faculty developmentinstitution-within-an-institution. This model shows the clear influence of highly successfulefforts in student learning communities and K-12 faculty learning communities, both of whichcan (and perhaps must) make use of top-down organization, heavy incentivization, and explicitreward structures for participants. This tightly integrated model has proven enormouslysuccessful in many of its implementations in higher education, most notably the learningcommunity program at Miami University
Paper ID #13322Exploring the Social Processes of Ethics in Student Engineering Design TeamsMegan Kenny Feister, Purdue University Megan is a fourth year doctoral candidate in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue Uni- versity pursuing a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication with a minor in mixed methods. Her research focuses on engineering education, design, organizational identity, identification and socialization, team communication, innovation, and technology. She is currently working on an NSF grant examining ethi- cal reasoning and decision-making in engineering project teams, and examining the relationship
colonialbackdrop.This brief overview of the literature illustrates the potential limitations of traditional approachesto research ethics when applied to qualitative research, a challenge that is crucially important forthe growing discourse around the use of interpretive methods in engineering education. Theanalysis of prior work in the areas of feminist and de-colonizing methodologies points to theinherent link between considering ethics as an integral part of research and the holistic quality ofresearch findings. In the following we build on this discussion to explore a practice-based way ofintegrating ethical considerations into the research process as part of a larger, cohesiveconsideration of research quality.Theoretical frameworkThe Quality Framework that
% 44%Table 4: Number of Engineering GraduatesAcademic Year Academic Year Academic Year Academic Year Academic Year2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011137 123 139 149 167CASCADE seeks to increase the number of well-qualified engineers for South Texas. Projectstrategies focus on implementation of design experiences throughout the engineeringundergraduate curriculum with linkages to JIL to provide access to authentic design projects.This is overlaid with an innovative cascaded mentoring program to support student success.Initially, CASCADE will pilot the curriculum implementation of design experiences in the
Science. She spearheaded design and launch of the Engineering GoldShirt Program to provide a unique access pathway to engineering for high potential, next tier students not admitted through the standard admissions process; early findings revealed significant challenges in calculus readiness. Sullivan was conferred as an ASEE Fellow in 2011 and was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education.Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado, BoulderBeth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Beth A. Myers is the engineering assessment specialist for the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering management
sure they go just above the knee. We don’t want short skirts; those aren’t business appropriate at all.As highlighted above, and in a presentation slide used by the TAs, students wereexplicitly encouraged to integrate an “attention getter” into their presentations; the class’sTA’s described these attention getters on their slide as a “fact, joke, or greeting.” Page 26.880.10Of the six groups, three chose to begin with a joke; of the remaining three groups, twobegan with a fact and one did not include any of the three possible attention getters.Because of the relative prevalence of humor, and because of humor’s role
Finding #2: Instructors in the study believe STSE is relevant to the engineering curriculum,although there is variance in the different components of STSE and beliefs vs. practices.When instructors were asked “who is responsible for STSE in the engineering curriculum?”, themajority agreed that instructors of a course in technology and society studies (93.9%), instructorsof a course in engineering ethics (95.7%) and instructors of engineering design courses (88.7%)were responsible. However, interestingly, when asked about instructors of courses in whichcontent is primarily mathematics, science or engineering science, 49.1% agreed that theinstructors were responsible for STSE (for example, “This should be an integrated part of theentire curriculum
development, and applications of statistical signal processing.Dr. Michael R. Gustafson II, Duke University Dr. Michael R. Gustafson II is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at Duke University. He received a B.S.E. in 1993 from Duke University, majoring in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. He continued on at Duke to earn his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. His primary focus is on undergraduate curriculum and laboratory development, and he is responsible for the first-year Computational Methods in Engineering course required for all engineering students at Duke University.Dr. Joseph C. Nadeau P.E., Duke
implementedcurriculum and the learned curriculum6. Each of these phases is a part of the research and designprocess for curriculum as it is created and used in classrooms. In a similar vein, Kelly examinesthe use of design-based research in education by describing an example of research-basedsoftware development in mathematics education and points to ways engineering educationresearch could adopt design research methodologies5 for iteratively creating and testinginnovative teaching methods. Design has been used in engineering education primarily from the point of view of developingstudents’ abilities as designers and considering their use of design processes in learning to beengineers 7 or from the perspective of design professionals8. We use “design research
' improving an org's experts par,cipa,on within a compe,,veness group Figure 1: Evolution of CoP [9]In their characterization of a virtual CoP, Sharrat and Usoro [10] identified several criteria for theidentification and assessment of CoP that include: value congruence, sense of community, careeradvancement, competence-based trust, benevolence-based trust, integrity-based trust, perceivedusefulness, and ease of use (Table 1).Table 1. Characterizations of CoP [10]Characterization Definition
, offering subjects in science with a decided practical, professional focus. This makesKTH Sweden’s oldest technical university. It is also the largest; approximately one-third ofSweden’s technical research and engineering education capacity at university level is providedby KTH. Currently, 13,400 first and second level students and 1,900 doctoral students study atKTH.KTH has remained a leading-edge institution since its inception. Recently, KTH created a Vision2027 strategy: “Information technology as an integral part of everyday life has altered conditions Page 26.764.5for university studies fundamentally by 2027. Competition is becoming global
Paper ID #13097Mapping the Spread of Collaborative Learning Methods in Gateway STEMCourses via Communities of PracticeProf. Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Matthew West is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Illinois he was on the faculties of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis. Prof. West holds a Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology and a
on the redesigned courses. The broaderimpact of this project is twofold. First, data generated through assessment and evaluation isexpected to support the theoretical rationale that systematic change in STEM education mustinclude a wide spectrum of stakeholders (administrators, faculty, staff, and students). Secondly,dissemination of the results of this work is expected to provide a model for institutionalimplementation of evidence-based practices at colleges or universities of similar size and/orstudent body demographics as AAMU, a land-granted minority serving university.1. IntroductionSTEM education is the gateway to prosperity for our ever-evolving technology-dependentsociety in the 21st century. To succeed in an increasingly integrated
Integrating and aligning teaching methodsTeaching Practice towards self-regulated learning Broader curriculum reform to support self-Curriculum Development and Assessment regulation and authentic assessment of lifelong learning skillsAs an exploratory investigation, this research is not seeking to measure students’ levels of self-reflection, self-regulation, or engagement in these processes. The workshop exercises do not takean instructional approach to teach students about lifelong learning or to target the development ofrelated competencies. Additionally, our research goal is not to
instruction. She is involved in the University of Manitoba Faculty of Engineering’s curriculum improve- ment process.Dr. Marcia R Friesen P.Eng., University of ManitobaProf. Sandra Ingram, University of Manitoba Sandra Ingram, Ph.D., is a SSHRC award-winning scholar and Associate professor in Design Engineer- ing, Associate Chair (NSERC Design Engineering) and adjunct professor in Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Dr. Ingram is responsible for teaching the technical communication course in the faculty as well as an integrated approach to communications in the Biosys- tems Engineering department. Her research interests include professional skills in engineering, interna- tionally