the possibilities that surround me, and along with them…beauty.Circling a new role, now not who I am but what I do, yet more than that.A minister, literally, to be a servant, one who serves, reflecting my values unveiled and embraced.Circling fluidly between identities and roles grounded in who I am, a leader, a husband, a father, a teacher, a student, still…a servant.My eyes gazing outward, not on a goal nor an identity, external or internal, but anchored to a purpose found within myself yet beyond myself, to live for others, to serve humanity, particularly the “least of these.”Crashing into labels and stereotypes, Slowly circling, while negotiating the
important to its members because it has helpedthem fully integrate their multiple identities into their work. The group supports members’identity development, which enhanced their ability to be supportive of LGBTQ+ students.The current study has a few limitations that can be addressed in future work. First, the currentpaper only reports a fraction of the emergent themes. Second, the VCP members interviewed forthe project were self-selected and may not be reflective of STEM faculty not participating in theVCP. In addition, the linguistic and conceptual analysis is not presented here as the interpretationis ongoing and will be deepened in future rounds of analysis. Finally, due to research stafflimitations iterator reliability has not been performed
multiple viewpoints related to the problem, question or topic. SLO 4. Students will be able to apply appropriate research methods or theoretical framework to the problem, question or topic. SLO 5. Students will be able to formulate conclusions that are logically tied to inquiry findings and consider applications, limitations, and implications. SLO 6. Students will be able to reflect on or evaluate what was learned.The pre-test sample included 158 students (n=84) and post-test included 84 student (n=84).Result scores based on the different units are shown in Table 1. Table 1: Pre-Workshop and Post-Workshop student scores (range: 1-5) based on IDW Rubrics Student Learning
sciences (2) majors that were started before the 2000-2001 academic year (Table 1).The environmental design degree was housed in the College of Architecture and Planning. Eightof the programs were accredited by ABET’s EAC; one was Computing Association Commission(CAC)-accredited; 12 were non-accredited.The admissions criteria for majors in the CEAS differed from those in the College of Arts andSciences. These differences were reflected in the average high school GPA of the first-year students who matriculated into various majors, which ranged from a high of 3.90 in Aerospace Engineering to a low of 3.28 in Geography (based on the fall 2008 class). Table 1. The 21 studied undergraduate degree programs
establishing empathy as anecessary addition to the engineering field.Empathy is a component of emotional intelligence that is measurable by most assessments.Reimer makes the case that emotional intelligence, as measured by these scales, is reflective of aperson’s overall communication skills. As such, there may also be a link of these sameemotional intelligence scales to the engineering design process. The effective design processstarts with empathy for the customer as the priority [29].The EQi-2.0 reports 21 scores, which include 15 individual metrics. The individual metrics aregrouped into five composite scores and a total score. These scores set up the basis for thecomparison of the development of the student to their process of solving an open
terminology and the breadth of skills that may be included. A rigorous andstructured literature review is provided which identifies the range of terms used to describe thenon-technical skill set. Consistent with the practices of ASEE/LEES, and for the purposes of thispaper, the authors adopt the term professional skills as it is encompassing of a wide range ofcompetencies - but still has its weaknesses. The study uniquely used a structured review of the engineering education literature togather a first of its kind list of competencies not previously gathered. This list reflects theinconsistency in the terms used to describe the competencies. A content analysis of a sample ofengineering job advertisements did support that a large portion of the
comprehensively what studentswere thinking regarding how they were learning professional skills. Our results showed thatstudents value the ABET outcomes and think professional skills are essential for careerdevelopment but felt the PLI implementation was not an effective way to teach and encouragethose skills.As industry and student needs evolve over time, programs similar to the PLI must remainadaptable and receptive to feedback to ensure the content reflects those changes. Based on theresults from our current study, engineering students believe they should be learning ABETprofessional skills via integration into the core curriculum. As ABET professional skilldevelopment is integrated into the core engineering curriculum, it will be essential
. [4] Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2005). Definition and Selection of Competencies (DeSeCo) Project. Retrieved from http://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/41529556.pdf [5] Williams, J. (2002). The engineering portfolio: Communication, reflection, and student learning outcomes assessment. International Journal of Engineering Education, 18(2), 199–207. [6] Boiarsky, C. (2004). Teaching engineering students to communicate effectively: A metacognitive approach. International Journal of Engineering Education, 20 (2), 251–60. [7] Gömleksi˙ z, M. N. (2007). Effectiveness of cooperative learning (jigsaw II) method in teaching English as a foreign language to
. Likewise, as the sample sizes inTable 4 and 82 and 65 for males and females, respectively, for the correlations below 0.30 thestatistical power of the t-tests comparing scales is well below 0.80. All of this is to say that byincreasing the sample size in future studies, it is possible we will detect relationships between thesurvey scales that we have perhaps failed to detect here by committing a Type II error.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under EEC1150874 and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE-1333468.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of
cause of this engagement problem is not complicated; public speaking has been a top fear ofpeople in the United States for years, often anecdotally but also in a more documented sense,most recently in Chapman University’s “Survey on American Fears,” where public speakingplaced fifth (9.1%) just behind “Being [a] victim of mass/random shooting” (also 9.1%)1.Another persistent problem is lack of experience. As much as any other ability, effective publicspeaking requires repeated practice at delivering talks before audiences and, more importantly,reflection after a talk on what went poorly and the willingness to do it again, better. Assessingthe presentation experiences of, e.g., the general public or U.S. college students is beyond thescope of
Evaluation of Effectiveness. Engineering practitioners rate a sample of student papers using a simple 1 to 5 scale from “not effective” to “effective” - or, as translated by one practitioner, from “horrible” to “hire this person!” They are given basic information about the task and asked to evaluate based on what they know to be effective writing in workplace practice. Scores for pre- and post-intervention papers are compared statistically with Mann-Whitney U or Wilcoxon Matched Pairs tests. 4. Perceptions of Usefulness. Students are asked to complete a short survey about their perceptions of their learning and the materials’ usefulness, or – if instructors prefer – to write open-ended reflections on their learning. The survey
a deeper, more experi-ential level, this typeset output reinforces the belief that a program is a document, encouragingprogrammers to write documents, instead of disjointed comments. Finally, this underlying beliefthat a program is a document then opens to the authors the multitude of advantages which accrueto writers: creation of and reflection on the overall structure of the essay; the ability to easily in-clude others in the development process; the inclusion of the creative ideas which produced aparticular implementation.This last point bears further investigation. Traditional programming focuses on the what – the code,which defines a specific implementation. This information provides a compiler all the informationneeded to blindly
finished their projects (see figures 2a and 2b). Participants were asked to reflect back tobefore the project began to rate their confidence on skills on a Likert scale, and then considertheir confidence at the conclusion of the project. In the future, a survey will be given to studentsat the first build session, and the same survey upon completion to measure competencies.A statistical analysis of the survey results was performed. For each category considered, the datawas first tested for normality. For normally distributed data sets, a paired t-test was used. For thedata that was not normal, the Wilcoxon R-S test was used to test for significance. A p-value lessthan 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Figure 2a: First part of survey
from this course. - My understanding of engineering has not changed much, I pretty much know everything I knew coming into this. And know I just know a lot about climate change and a Copenhagen debate that didn’t solve any issues - The teacher used easy terms for us to understand the key ideas and how we can relate it to our life which helped us connect engineering to our lives. - My understanding of engineering has not changed because of this class because the professor only talked about climate change. Climate change has nothing to do with engineering. - Climate change has a lot to do with engineering.The self-reflections show that there were very different ways in which the students absorbedand
content score reflects total Page 25.694.7points earned, without any deductions for misconceptions, while the overall score accounts for 6those deductions. From this data, it is evident that equal amounts of the deductions from theassertion-evidence content scores come from each of the four categories, whereas many of thetopic-subtopic deductions come from major process misconceptions. One possible reason for the lack of a statistical difference is that in this experiment, thevisual evidence used for the topic-subtopic slides was very similar in quality to the assertion-evidence condition. For
informed decisions and providethem with the ability to adapt to future environments and act independently on acquiredknowledge. University Core courses expose students to multiple literacies, technologies, andsensitivity to diversity, as reflected in the particular course content. Another goal of theUniversity Core is to engage students in developing a sense of their place in our urbanenvironment and in the greater global environment. Thus, when submitting ENGR 3400 and3600 to the Core Committee, the reasoning was that goals and objectives of these engineeringcourses would fit well within the mission of the University’s General Education CoreRequirements and satisfy core curriculum requirements at the University level. The courseswere then
discussion with both coders. The themes with the most commentsrepresented several stakeholders who shared common feedback for how to modify the scoringsystem. For example, for the skill on “taking questions,” five stakeholders suggested that theskill definition needed further clarification and specific indicators. Once these themes wereverified and finalized, they were used to guide modifications of the scoring system.Final Inter-Rater Reliability TestingData CollectionIt should be noted that a number of skills were not modified at all because they were alreadyhighly reliable. For these skills, changes to the supplemental instructional materials will be madeto reflect the suggestions provided by the scoring system stakeholders.To analyze the inter
literature.25-26 These criteria include having no more than twolines for the sentence assertion headlines, supporting those headlines with relevantgraphics, and having as few words as possible for the bodies of the slides. As shown inTable 2, the average number of words per slide was 19.3, and every slide in the assertion-evidence set had a relevant graphic. Appendix B presents the assertion-evidence slides.Not reflected in this collection is that some of the slides included simple animationswhich took the form of presentation of additional details of graphics on nine of the tenslides (the animations followed the choice of “Appear,” which the assertion-evidenceliterature recommends). In developing the topic-subtopic slides, we followed the
anambiguous category. As such, it holds promise for insight into how engineers imagine the socialorder in which they operate as well as their own position in it. Our premise is twofold: that howengineers conceive of “the public” likely informs their conceptions of self, professional duty, andprofessional right, as well as engineering decisions, practices, and products; and that knowingwhat imaginaries of “the public” engineering education fosters is necessary for understanding theideologies that inform the critical but often elusive boundary that engineers raise between theirprofession and society. Our ultimate goal is to throw into relief the texture of this boundary:What social order might it promote? What values might it reflect? What interests
, several ofour middle years major-required courses, and a new third-year course designed for students whoexpect to graduate within the next year [29]. The first-year course introduces students toprinciples of reflection as a building block of SDL, in addition to design thinking, and thebiomedical engineering (BME) field. In the middle years’ courses, students engage in signaturelearning experiences that foster their entrepreneurial mindset and encourage them to integratewhat they are learning with some of their prior extra- and co-curricular experiences. In their thirdyear, students complete a new, major-required course entitled The Art of Telling Your Story thatacts as a type of capstone experience in this vertically integrated curriculum.The
differentiatedhigher education market. The prevalence of these rankings in the public mind have promptedmany universities to strengthen their enrollment management strategies in order to expandenrollments, maintain better balance across enrollment swings, and to manage their discountrates (amounts offered through financial aid) to keep their institutions solvent—a pressure that islikely only to intensify due to the fiscal impacts of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Manyinstitutions report that the downside of national rankings is that they do not accurately reflect thequality of education offered by their institution, and therefore do not make for an efficientmarket. Indeed, our data point to specific gaming behaviors, often tuned to the algorithmsemployed by
. For many, the ambassador rolebegins during a large, multi-institution workshop. Post-event surveys reveal high levels ofability, confidence, and preparedness to create and deliver outreach presentations. Post-workshopinterviews reveal that the training offers a platform for role identity development. Theambassador role aligns career-related motivations, resonance with messages contained in theNational Academy of Engineering’s Changing the Conversation report, beliefs about the missionof the EAN, and plans for fulfilling the Network’s mission. After the initial training, students’role identities reflect an integration of their undergraduate engineering student role with the newrole of ambassador, with the intermediary role of an effective
professional relationshipsamong engineers who are actively building the infrastructure that makes possible modernhuman civilization (i.e., engineering for diplomacy). Oerther elaborated on the value ofintegrating engineering and diplomacy in his reflection on the 70th anniversary of theFulbright program.10 Because engineers are required to employ a systems orientation andthe recognition of design constraints, engineering for diplomacy can focus upon therealities needed to address the fourteen grand challenges facing global humanity – fromadvanced personal learning to engineering the tools of scientific discovery.11By establishing partnerships between the DoS and U.S. colleges and universities, DipLabprovides students with a mechanism to participate in
actually do the engineering work, basically costing companies twice as much as it should.In this zero-sum game, any recognition that engineering work is sociotechnical in nature or anywhiff of preparing engineers for the professional expectations of the 21st century workplace istantamount to technical disaster, as if professional skills are some kind of kryptonite erasingtechnical skillsets. Diverse engineers are presumed incapable and pitted against “real engineers.”Yet ABET’s new requirements for diverse teaming reflect the reality that if our students don’tget basic training in power relations across categories like race, gender, class, ability, sexualorientation, gender identity, nationality, immigrant status, and veteran status, they
asked to reflect on their choice ofuniversity and major, as well as their experiences with courses and assessment. Furthermore,participants were asked to speak about various aspects of their social experience thus far in theiruniversity career, including the disciplinary makeup of their friend group and their participationin disciplinary professional societies and other extracurricular activities. Interviews lastedapproximately one hour each. The recordings were sent to a professional transcription serviceand were checked once more by the research team to ensure the accuracy of the transcript.AnalysisThe process for this analysis began with familiarization with each of the individual participant’sinterview transcript. Each was read first for
turn can be used to identify asolution. Engineering educators tend to treat “society” as a distinctly separate silo fromengineering itself. This is not to say that society isn’t discussed within the engineeringclassroom, but it is often framed as a linear progression -- something is engineered, then it hasan impact on society. This is reflected in the 2016-2017 ABET outcome H: “the broad educationnecessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic,environmental, and societal context.” The very language of this statement indicates societalcontext is seen as relevant, but distinctly separate, from engineering solutions.Similarly, students’ lived experiences are typically contained in a separate silo. Students
communities of practice [3] to understandstudents’ mutual learning. Based on ethnographic observations of pairs of graduate andundergraduate engineers working in four research laboratories, we investigate how students learncrucial research skills from each other. In general, all the students learned professional skills,such as communication and collaboration, while the undergraduates also learned technical skills,such as how to conduct laboratory work. In addition, the graduate students benefitted from self-reflection about their research routines and assumptions thanks to undergraduates’ questions andsuggestions. 1This paper investigates the
reflection is going on about how we as educators need to evolve. • Conversion of discussions into action in technical education around the globe will be highly appreciated. • A breakthrough, courageous act for the organizers to introduce and seat this concept; a surprise to see how much momentum and appetite exists for Peace Engineering. The challenge is to open up to co-create it without politics of sector (academe v business; engineering v business schools) or internal politics. Walk the talk of system wellbeing.Conclusions – Lessons from the ConferenceEssentially, Peace Engineering is a movement towards a new ethos for engineering. Foreducation, it means developing students with a worldview based on inclusion
theseconnections and to support the personal development of teamwork and communication skills thatare so valuable in today’s academic and non-academic workplaces.AcknowledgementsThis study is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under anInnovation Though Institutional Integration grant (NSF # 0963659, Martin Schimpf, PI). Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of theauthors and do not necessary reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We alsogratefully acknowledge the students who participated in the Summer Research Community, andthe faculty and staff from the following projects at Boise State University who organized theSummer Research Community: NSF REU Program in