students that they worked with in lab. Table 3 displays the results in order of whichbehaviors were most common. Note that this table includes all participants who participated inthe post-survey, regardless of whether they chose to participate in an interview or not. This wasdone to uncover a more comprehensive picture regarding mentors’ behaviors while mentoring,and because no comparison to the pre-survey was being drawn. The four most commonbehaviors include “sharing the big picture” and goals of the project with the REU student,organizing the research activities for the REU student, modifying the research plan/schedulebased on the student’s progress, and helping the REU student prepare a presentation. Table 3. Number of mentors reporting
appointment) and still be able tomaintain suitable progress in the fellow’s Ph.D. plan of study. For this implementation, fellowsapplied in early spring, were selected by late spring, and arrived on the RHIT campus coincidentwith new faculty orientation. The fellows were placed in receptive departments and were invitedto participate in the daily life of the organization. Both fellows attended the new facultyorientation activities as appropriate (e.g. the annual teaching workshop, but not the HR benefitsseminar), and were introduced alongside other new staff and faculty at the annual opening daysymposium. During the fellowship, the fellows attended departmental or institutional meetings,participated in Homecoming activities, ate in the faculty/staff
development simplydoesn’t work that way. Although basic scientific research is frequently needed in large,complex scale technology development and innovation projects, basic research is not theprimary forerunner of technology. Creative engineering projects in industry frequentlydrive the need for directed academic research efforts at universities, when necessary, orwhen anticipated, to gain a better understanding of the natural phenomena involved.As Sanders and Brown have pointed out: “The great discovery of our age is thattechnological innovation need not be haphazard. Industry and government have developeda new concept of planned and systematized innovation, founded on vastly expandedscientific and engineering efforts. These institutions are now
outside of academia.’Questions of validity for the percentage comparisons between ethnic groups exist for severalreasons: several female subjects identified as both White and Asian/ Hispanic, one subject didnot indicate their ethnicity (N=14), and the way that, when completing the survey, somerespondents selected all reasons, while others chose just two or three.Even though study statistics are not significant and are somewhat limited in their validity,reflecting on both the gender and ethnic comparisons brings out several statistics that we plan tocontinue to monitor as subsequent cohorts participate in the NRT. The strongest finding is thatwomen, both White and Asian/ Hispanic, appear to be more strongly attracted to theinterdisciplinary nature
, have planned orientations, started periodic“check-in” meetings with the first-year students, created expectation documents for first-yearstudents to review with their advisors, and organized peer-mentor programs.The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of various initiatives developed by the LeadTA and the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder. Our primaryresearch question is: “Do approaches to increasing communication avenues between first-yeardoctorate students, faculty and department administration positively impact the first-yearexperience at our university?” Overall, our goal is to foster a supportive environment andprovide the tools first-year doctorate students need to succeed throughout their
further. For instance, participants suggested it would be useful to hear more about whatclasses to take and an overview of what classes are available on campus. They suggested this could bedone by having an advisor spend time reviewing their planned courses and provide feedback beforeclasses started. Participants explained it would be helpful to hear about fellowship opportunitiesavailable at the university, or through national organizations, so they were prepared to consider howthey might shape their first year to apply for them. Finally participants noted that it would be helpful ifthe summer bridge program could replace some of the discipline based lessons with a more generaltopic such as how to manage the amount of reading assigned in
National University, San Diego, CAAbstractThe Sustainability Management graduate program objective is to train future leaders ofcorporations, government agencies, non-profits etc., who will strive to demonstrate a balanceamong the three elements of sustainability, namely, Environment, Economics and Equity/SocialJustice (generally referred to as 3 Es). Implementation of sustainability projects bring in elementsof technical and management aspects.Sustainability Management capstone projects bring to fruition all the knowledge and skills fromthe coursework to solving a real-world problem. The project is key to students’ academicsuccess, develop future leaders’ planning and implementation skills. Students in this programcome
research experiences can impact a student’sexcitement, curiosity, and identity11. This project in particular was structured so that graduatestudents were exposed to a distributed research project that presented various methodologicalconsiderations. The project was organized and scaffolded in a way that would introduce newresearchers to engineering education research that would make them comfortable in the field12.The following potential results of participation were marketed to graduate students in an email: Belonging. Increase your sense of belonging to the engineering education community; Personal reflection. Engage in reflection on your own trajectories, plans, and expectations; Curiosity. Become increasingly curious
, ormathematics (STEM) 6. And less than 40 percent of students pursuing undergraduate degrees inSTEM majors completed their program6. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)Digest of Education Statistics (2001) reported that of the four million ninth graders in the US,less than half graduated from high school7. And of those high school graduates, one third had nocollege plans and 56 percent of them were not ready for college7. As Figure 1 illustrates, thestudy found that the STEM pipeline leaked 96 percent of potential STEM graduates.Figure 1: Illustration of the leaky STEM pipeline. Data is from the NCES Digest of EducationStatistics & Science Engineering Indicators, 20087.Effective personalized learning may have the potential to greatly
programsoffered by individual degree-granting universities.Keywords: technology management; TM; management of technology; technologyconcentrations; graduate programs; Ph.D.IntroductionThe National Research Council [1] described the technology management as “a process, whichincludes planning, directing, control and coordination of the development and implementation oftechnological capabilities to shape and accomplish the strategic and operational objectives of anorganization.’’ McKirahan and Cheney [2] noted Gaynor reporting technology managementlinks the disciples of engineering, science, and management to plan, develop, and implementtechnological capabilities for shaping and accomplishing an organization’s strategic andoperational objectives. On the
) while the first author was on the faculty of the Department of EngineeringTechnology at the University of Houston. First, two separate Master of Technology programswere merged in 2005-06 to feature a set of core courses and two tracks. Then, in 2010 thedegree was renamed Master of Science and the department introduced two new specializations inMechanical Engineering Technology and in Systems Control Technology. The program seeks toprepare individuals with advanced technical competencies, capable of engaging in translationalresearch applications, and who also have opportunities to develop a basic level of business skillsrelated to project management, business planning, technology forecasting, entrepreneurship,organizational leadership, logistics
for SmartTeaching” and decided to adopt this book for the GTA seminar. Page 24.189.4Course ObjectivesEach of the class sessions focuses on a teaching and learning topic, 1) setting the tone - classclimate, 2) understanding your students - who are your students?, 3) how students learn;teaching culturally diverse students, 4) motivation, 5) strategic course planning - learningobjectives, 6) instructional methods, 7) assessment of learning, peer learning techniques,practice and feedback, and 8) teaching ethics and ethical teaching. The instructor wanted tomaintain these topics, so to make the use of the book valuable; the instructor redesigned
anticipated, but all of the results should be interpreted with the size as a majorconsideration. The other limitation is generalizability. This study was only conducted at one(R1) university with only three fields studied, so the results cannot be generalized beyond thepopulation.Future WorkWe plan to evaluate and analyze the lifelong learner results carefully so that reliable lifelonglearner items can be created, either as new questions or as questions that relate orthogonally tolifelong learning in teacher and researcher roles. We also plan to revise and distribute the surveynationally to all graduate fields of study to see how the additional fields view these roles. Also,we plan to follow up with the same population to discern any changes that may
attritionrates in the sciences focused on the research question: “what influence do TAs have onunderclass students‟ plans to major in or leave the sciences?”5. Study results showed thatalthough GTAs could not be directly tied to retention they had a large amount of control overclassroom climate, which in turn did impact retention rates. Moreover, students cited GTAenthusiasm and attitude as facilitating the students‟ learning. Given the similarity of retentionand attrition issues across Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields, findingsfrom this study in science are very likely to be relevant to engineering.Graduate Teaching Assistants in EngineeringAccording to the National Academy of Engineering: “the essence of engineering – the
”, “always use a check list and criteria”,“be especially careful about the interaction between the students and the teacher” and “watch outfor clues from when the students may have trouble following the teacher and how you improveupon that”. In answering the question, “do you plan to be a college teacher as a career goal?” in theposttest, 67% of the students said yes! Page 25.1436.8Conclusion and ReflectionThe instructor of the course integrated a peer observation project because students asked formore than one observation of their teaching. Initially one observation by the instructor wasprovided to each student who was teaching; and no observation
signal processing of the hand tremerdata. Since the AR model is an adaptive linear predictor, it is anticipated that it will be able toadaptively adjust to different patients. Eventually it is envisioned that these techniques couldbe implemented on an inexpensive portable digital signal processor-based device that wouldprovide the signals necessary for real-time electromechanical suppression of hand tremers.When we develop plans for a new project, we have found it beneficial to the student to get a Page 12.791.4senior working on the project during one academic year and then in the second year, when the Submitted for publication in the
maintains a relationship with a less-experienced, oftennew member to the organization and provides information, support, and guidance so as toenhance the less-experienced member's chances of success in the organization and beyond.” [3]The goal of the mentoring relationship is to enhance the student's academic success and tofacilitate the progression to post-graduate plans, either graduate study or a career in theworkplace. In the university setting, graduate students might receive mentoring from either theiradvisor or non-advisor. This study concentrates on mentoring relationship between graduatestudents and their advisor. Faculty advisor can be either research advisor or academic advisor.However, it is common that graduate students’ works are most
sidelines, and all have fun. The lab provides thebeverages, burgers, and hotdogs, but the sides and desserts are potluck. Families are invited aswell, so this event serves as an opportunity to get to know spouses, children, and the occasionalfamily dog.Student Sponsored Events Through a combination of the many social activities that the program plans and that most first year graduate students are in the same classes, the students get to know each other quickly. Several student sponsored events have
independent research project. This consideration included an emphasis on theimportance of long-term planning to account for the influence of funding agencies, stakeholders,and needs and resources associated with team management and the responses broadly reflectedan understanding of the complexity of independent engineering research. Responses in Category3 suggested knowledge about the needs and practices of participants’ specific area ofengineering. These students demonstrated comfort with the specifics of conducting independentresearch while discussing the hypothetical research scenario in a way that suggested they wereable to abstract to explain their research process more broadly demonstrating their ability toapply core principles or knowledge
data were shared with fellow researchers and colleagues as a meansto ensure trustworthiness.ResultsOf the 42 posdocs in this study, 69% were in their first postdoc position, 29% were in theirsecond, and 2% were in their third. Of these 42, 48% were interested in academic positions aftertheir current position, while 29% were interested in industry. The remaining postdocs eitherwere uncertain of their plans or had plans unrelated to industry or academia. The followingsections summarize the reasons these postdocs decided to pursue postdoc positions, and theresponsibilities, benefits, and challenges that came with the position. The participants’ genderand field are represented by M (male), F (female), SCI (science), and ENG (engineering).Reasons
both a formative and summative evaluation plan for their teaching.Obj. 5 - Students will have developed their own philosophy of teaching statement. Format of the courses is based on one three-hour session, one evening per week for 10weeks (academic quarter). Primary leadership has been by the study author, however selectedtopics are addressed by colleagues from a range of units across campus and from otherUniversities. The course is highly interactive, frequently using collaborative learning techniques.Formative and summative assessment is modeled throughout course and with end of term tools.Each segment (topic and presenter) is assessed independently at the end of the course. Thirtyminute individual exit interviews are used in
learningoutcomes (milestones accomplished such as publications, proposals, defenses); career plans(academic, entrepreneurial); additional educational constructs as determined by the pedagogicalexpert. Overall program learning is assessed via a rubric developed to assess the 5 DimensionsScale, Figure 5 [10] from the project leadership team, Scalability Committee, External AdvisoryBoard, and the Student Advisory Board. The evaluation logic model, presented below in Table 1,outlines the project goals, actions, key measures, and leading and lagging outcomes.While the ultimate goal of the project is to increase the number of innovations andentrepreneurialism of doctoral graduates, along with the proportion of degrees earned fromtargeted student groups, it is
. Students may be co-located in a classroomor in separate locations interconnected via videoconferencing. Faculty evaluators are located at aremote location and communicate via videoconferencing. During the first thirty minutes of an eval-uation, students jointly present their work uninterrupted. During the subsequent twenty minutes,faculty evaluators ask the students questions and they are given opportunities to respond. The finalten minutes are reserved for private faculty evaluator discussion and graded team assessment.During the first semester of the project course, preliminary design and prototype design evaluationsare performed. The preliminary design evaluation provides students feedback on the planned workand the project goals early in the
approved technical electives. ≠ Administrative capability and faculty advisor development ≠ Program marketing and promotion ≠ Faculty capabilities audit and resource reallocation such as shifting a portion of undergraduate teaching responsibilities to graduate teaching to meet the immediate needs. ≠ Curriculum design: the needs, competitors, program goals and quality position, facilities Page 14.858.3 and equipment (computers, programs, research labs, etc), graduate committee, faculty specialties and competitive advantages, plan of study, etc. ≠ Student recruitment and admission: minimum enrollment and long
Page 14.890.4engineering as well.2. Course OrganizationThe two cooperative MITT courses were intended to be second-level courses in glass on anadvanced senior or elementary graduate level. They were organized to first review the materialwhich would be covered in an introductory glass course. The review segment was covered in thefirst week of the semester. The remaining segments of the courses covered material new to thestudents and were taught by experts in their respective fields. Each segment emphasized aparticular technique for structural characterization for the first course or an associated propertyof glass for the second course, using examples of the correlation between structure and propertiesof glass.In the planning discussions among
classes, but focusing on research (independent or group) ⇧ Dissertation, defense, publications, and the role of the advisor Other degrees (e.g., MBA, law, medical, etc.) ⇧ May be easier to transition than you might think ⇧ Likely need to take a few bridge courses; add time to your degree • Application process GREs: SAT of graduate school; get a book, start studying, plan to take 1-2 times R´esum´es: different from job r´esum´es, include more projects, more details; no limit in size Personal statements: standing out, prove your worth with evidence, aim it at the school, department, program, and advisor (research-specific) References/recommendations
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Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Design Activity Worksheets for Developing Research QuestionsAbstractDeveloping good research questions is a skill that develops over time and is often difficult forstudents. More often than not, it is up to the student to determine what to research. Where do Istart? What do I look for? Is this a good research question? These are just a few of the questionsstudents ask and should ask in the early stages of their research process. This work describes aprogressive plan for developing research questions using a series of four design activityworksheets to
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #17343Industry experience: Consulting; since 1987; Had major or partial role in: I) performing research forindustry, DOE and NSF, and II) in several oil industry or government (DOE, DOD, and NSF) proposals.Performed various consulting tasks from USA for several oil companies (Jawaby Oil Service Co., WAHAOil and Oasis Co., London, England). The responsibilities included production planning, forecastingand reservoir maintenance. This production planning and forecasting consisted of history matching andprediction based on selected drilling. The reservoir maintenance included: water/gas
acting versus Balancing reflecting and experiencing versus thinkingFigure 2: The Nine Basic Learning Styles9These nine types of learning styles are associated with four learning abilities: ConcreteExperience (CE), Active Experimentation (AE), Reflective Observation (RO), and AbstractConceptualization (AC). The learning abilities are defined in Figure 3. Learning Ability Definition Abstract Logically analyzing ideas, planning systematically, acting on an Conceptualization intellectual understanding of the situation Active Showing ability to get things done, taking risks, influencing Experimentation people and events through action