technical/professional communications into thecourse and emphasizing those skills inherent to the KEEN 3Cs have been to: 1. Provide opportunities for students to collaborate with a diverse and multidisciplinary group with different backgrounds. 2. Create a course where students can develop a broader perspective on problem-solving and innovation. 3. Enhance students’ abilities to make connections between background knowledge, new knowledge, and to integrate diverse knowledge and skillsets. 4. Emphasize the need to adapt communication styles for various audiences while giving students opportunities to improve through the writing process: draft, revise, and provide feedback to peers, and utilize feedback from their
teaching community demonstrates the broader valueof interdisciplinary work and problem solving through shared experiences, coaching, andmentoring.Engineering education faces a broad problem of minimal formal training in essential non-technical areas such as communication, often leaving instruction in best practices incommunicating science to informal networks and near peers who may have hard-won experiencebut little grounding in best practices.[6] [7]The result is a learning-through-hard-knocks ad hocapproach for many students rather than programmatically defined and implemented bestpractices, which promote earlier application in a scientist or engineer’s training. By connectingearly with trusted practitioners from non-STEM fields whose work is
greater EME via their suggestions and discussions, thustying to the creating value facet of EML. As observed by Trimble & Lichtenstein [15] in theirwork with students, peer review scores were overly generous, and some teams provided moresubstantive feedback than others. Although the rubric is useful in supplying detailedrequirements and associated scores during peer review, future iterations of the EME couldbenefit by providing students with detailed instructions on how to provide meaningful peerreview feedback. A lesson on how to peer review materials would be a wonderful opportunity topartner with the campus library and/or writing center.The end goal of the project, from the students’ perspective, is to create and present their
‘through’ entrepreneurship explores experiences that involve application of knowledge and skills that may take place via clubs and organizations, internships, projects, etc. ● Increasingly, teaching ‘in’ entrepreneurship highlights opportunities to embed entrepreneurial principles and concepts into other disciplines or subjects such as incorporating entrepreneurial scenario-based learning in an introductory solid mechanics course [7]. Teaching “in” entrepreneurship also highlights the learning that comes from peers in a facilitated community of practice.Learning skills and mindsets ‘for’ entrepreneurship moves beyond research and traditionalbusiness and management-related content to encompass durable skills [8] as problem
University. Dr. Ellis has a long-time interest in software engineering education and has been interested in student participation in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) since 2006. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 What’s Your Why?Helping students define their explicit value proposition using a 3-minute pitchAbstractArticulating your value and defining identity within a learning community can be a challenge forundergraduate students. Developing appropriate communication skills and strategies to improvecan be taught using peer-, self- and faculty-feedback tools. This is done through providingopportunities to fail and iterate. An appropriate
outputs from recently developed AI tools is a quite newchallenge that research communities are just now forming to address [23]. An investigation ofAI accuracy found that ChatGPT 3.5 proved, “…generally good at writing concepttopics…”[24]. One reasonably classifies a literature survey task as a concept topic, suggestingthe potential for accurate results from AI. However, this work uses Gemini 1.5 Flash, notChatGPT 3.5. Verhulsdonck and coauthors introduce a subjective means of evaluating theaccuracy of AI generated content independent of the particular tool [24]. Their HEAT method,an acronym formed from Human experience, Expertise, Accuracy and Trust, attempts tosubjectively gage AI output credibility. In this work’s contents, the H and E terms
social value. • Explain the basic working principles of standard Wearable Technology devices. • Report on the quality control, regulation, privacy and safety aspects of wearables. • Investigate the effects of costs, customer feedback and market valuation in engineering design • Communicate design status and results to all stakeholders in verbal, written, and public presentation formats at appropriate points in the development timeline. APPENDIX - ACourse conductStudents should read, understand and comply with the Lawrence Technological University Student Codeof Conduct. For more information see http://www.ltu.edu/student_affairs/student_conduct.aspAcademic IntegrityStudent groups may discuss problems with others, but should write
post surveys. ● Student Reflections: Open-ended reflection data was collected from student assignments, online discussions, and individual reflections. A specific prompt was chosen for this study: "How did this course develop your perspectives of value creation? Consider the following as you write your answer: In what ways have you grappled with the notion of value (political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental impact) in this course/project? How would you handle a situation where improving technological advancement might increase societal costs? What value did this course create/generate for you?"Data AnalysisBoth quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed. The quantitative
practices assessment instruments to identify potential instruments that could serve as thefoundation for our EM-infused engineering-specific teaching practices assessment tool. To coverthe landscape of STEM education literature, an education-focused database and amultidisciplinary database focused on STEM education were searched using a combination ofkeywords logically organized with Boolean operators. The initial results from the databasesearches consisted of 158 peer-reviewed publications. After the selection process, 13 papersreporting teaching practices were identified. This literature review study listed the teachingpractice assessment instruments reported in the selected documents and discussed theirapplicability to EM engineering teaching
, students who had an interest in graduate programs were alsoencouraged to take an M-CURE that focused on writing peer reviewed papers and transition to graduateprograms [3,5].The last element of the CURE experiences was tied to development of an entrepreneurial mindset (EM).EM for this project is defined as a set of attitudes, dispositions, habits, and behaviors that shape a uniqueapproach to problem-solving, innovation, and value creation. In the context of research, we are focused onhelping students connect research with value creation. We have defined a research mindset as a broaderidea that includes many facets of an entrepreneurial mindset. These factors in turn are connected to theidea of student-centered research [6].All of the CUREs in the
conflicts of interest affectingacademic researchers. First, there continues to be a significant push to get more graduate studentsinvolved in technology commercialization through university-based initiatives or nationalprograms such as the NSF’s I-Corps. Second, in a class we teach on technology entrepreneurshipand research translation (see Duval-Couetil, Ladisch, et al., 2021), we observed that graduatestudents had limited awareness of potential conflicts that can occur when engaging inentrepreneurial activity.Each year, students in this course attend a lecture on COIs relevant to academicentrepreneurship, presented by an administrator from our university’s Office of Research. Afterthe last lecture, we asked students to reply in writing to the
. ● Use concept mapping to help identify open questions in your research project and collect information needed to understand your research opportunity. ● Identify key stakeholders for your research project and describe the interests of those stakeholders. 2. Thriving in a ● Describe the importance of using SMART goals to be able to answer your Research Environment research question and make connections between your research and the interests of stakeholders. ● Practice writing SMART goals for next steps in your research. ● Prepare a goal-setting plan that
customer discovery interviews completed as experientialhomework.The librarian used the Research Out, Knowledge In (ROKI) model [5] to deliver a workshop thatprovided maximum choice and engagement for students in the library databases and ChatGPTclass. The ROKI model invites students to learn by ‘doing and reflecting’ among peers and moreexperienced practitioners. Here, students work through one of four activity sheets, in groups, toexplore library resources such as Pitchbook, BCC Research, Statista, and IBISWorld. Eachactivity sheet provides prompts that guide students in navigating specific features and keycontent pieces that might be useful for their project. Students then share back reflections and anyquestions they have with each other and
Additive Manufacturing and CharacterizationThis course covers topics related to the fundamental concepts of additive manufacturing (AM) andmaterials characterization. The first 60% of the class focuses on the introduction and basic 3principles of additive manufacturing, including but not limited to AM of polymeric, ceramic, andmetallic parts. Topics such as ink-based direct writing, laser-assisted additive manufacturing,thermal spray, and hybrid AM technologies will be discussed. The second part of the class coverstopics on a variety of techniques used to characterize the structure and composition of engineeringmaterials, including metals, ceramics