various engineering concepts.The Technical Writing and Experimental Design encourages students to be writers, readers,reviewers and experimenters by providing them feedback at multiple stages of the experimentationand writing process, as well as iterative writing through peer review and grading of multiple paperrevisions. The course was created to follow a modular format, integrating a form of research orexperimentation paired with an appropriate writing or technical communication element, tointegrate both experimentation and documentation within a single module. Each module, learningobjective, and relationship to engineering career expectation is described as follows: • Essay: A formal research paper regarding ethical factors associated with
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were analyzed. These student papers formed the entirety of ayear-group cohort of students enrolled in a Mechanical Engineering Technology program at theauthors’ institution. As will be discussed in the conclusion, this analysis was part of a multi-yeareffort to measure the effect of student peer tutoring on student writing style. The cohort ofstudents whose work was measured for this paper were those who had received no peer tutoring.The nineteen works used as the source data for the examples of student writing averaged 463words in length (median = 387) and ranged between 1,595 words at the longest and 99 words atthe shortest (IQR 206 to 520).ResultsResults obtained from each of the methods described here are as follows in tables 2,3,4 and 5
Paper ID #32955Exploration Elective: Students from all Disciplines Explore Engineeringand SciencesDr. Esmeralda Campos, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico Dr. Esmeralda Campos is a postdoc researcher at Writing Lab at Tecnologico de Monterrey, and she has taught undergraduate physics courses at the School of Engineering and Sciences. She obtained her bach- elor degree in Engineering Physics at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. She studied a Master degree in Education, with a specialization in Science teaching and learning, and moved forward to the PhD in Educational Innovation, both at Tecnologico de Monterrey
or ECE, such as Control Theory, Digital Signal Processing or StructuralDynamics.The curricular goals of ESA are to further develop students’ skills and expertise in theengineering analysis process, increase their self-directed and peer learning abilities, and toconvey content that is common to ME and ECE programs. The focus on quantitative analysis ispart of a broader effort to educate students in this area. The course material is built around ahands-on project to control an inverted pendulum on a cart, a classic problem in control theory[1] which is often included in Signals and Systems and System Dynamics courses [2], [3].To this end, we developed a project using an affordable system based on an Arduino-likeplatform, the Balboa 32U4
Paper ID #33703Video Mediated Communication (VMC) Fluency for Today’s EngineeringStudent: You’re on CameraDr. Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel Alyson G. Eggleston is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Fine Arts, and Communica- tions at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, where she teaches STEM-focused technical writing and communication, writing-intensive courses for international students, and linguistics. She re- ceived her PhD from Purdue University in Linguistics, and she has a BA and MA in English with concen- trations in TESOL and writing pedagogy from Youngstown State University
presentation The “curveball” Document response in final Incorporate consideration of risks into project proposal project planning Deeper consideration of stakeholder viewpoints Contemplation of social impacts Project presentation Oral presentation to class Building team presenting skills Assessment skills (peer-grading) Project proposal Proposal document Writing skills
offers more opportunities for innovative impact. Each increase in Innovative Impact requires more extensive research, design, and review in the innovative outcome. In IBL, students are encouraged to develop their learning and innovative solutions so they contain high levels of knowledge development (DoK-3 and DoK-4) and high levels of impact (Academia and Society levels).Tokenized Learning SystemThe tokenized system allows students to log, track, and provide evidence of their individual self-defined learning goals easily and efficiently to all course instructors involved. The token flowprocess also incorporates anonymous peer/instructor review as well, giving studentsresponsibility and experience in providing/receiving
truly had an effect on my exams”Difficulty in staying focused during synchronous Zoom classes – (3%) “It is so easy to not pay attention at home my lack of focus added to the stress of classes” “It was difficult to find time to have one-on-one help with professors” “Very hard to learn this way.”Student’s comments/suggestions on ways to reduce stress Survey participants were also asked to write comments/suggestions that would help toreduce stress during upcoming semesters. Their suggestions are included below.Include a day off/a break, slowing down, assign less work /allocate more time to complete tasks “A day off with no added videos or any assignments to take care of built into the schedule from the
material by the end of the course, to show cumulativeknowledge, or to test on a final unit of material. Students also noted that forming an epic finalethat covers all of the course material or relates and probes the technical content deeply may be achallenge (yes, students, it is!). One student expressed concern that with the group nature ofsome of the work, students may ‘ride the coattails’ of classmates. However, that student noted,and the instructors have observed, that this has not happened during our experiences. The peer-accountability, the quick pace, the interesting topics, and the buzz and excitement in the roomhave thus far carried along even the least motivated students.Ultimately, one student astutely put it this way:I think this model