work with the assignment grading rubric and instructor materials toidentify areas for potential improvement. The instructor, using the materials prepared for the WATTStutor-training, provides feedback on areas of concern. Students then visit the writing center to getindividual peer feedback. Finally, students create a plan that combines the varied feedback sources forrevising their writing. This allows students to engage at multiple stages and take ownership of theirrevision process. This work-in-progress paper discusses an interdisciplinary approach to fostering student engagementin the iterative revision process. We used Kang et al.’s Design-Based Change Model (DBCM) [2] as aframework to envision, plan, implement, and sustain practices in
paper describes a recently awarded project comprising the design andimplementation of a Sustainability Engineering (SE) Minor at UPRM. We propose a posterpresentation to discuss our SE Minor plan and collect data about people’s perceptions ofsustainability in engineering.1. IntroductionAddressing "Sustainability" is an overarching challenge for the 21st century, requiring engineersto play a critical role. In the US, undergraduate degree programs that directly attend tosustainability are of two types: (1) interdisciplinary programs that do not grant engineering degreesand (2) environmental engineering programs that are vital but do not entirely address the holisticnotion of sustainability. However, based on our reading of "Strengthening
semesters has indicated that students enjoy having multi-ple homework assignments throughout the semester when they are asked to look up a paperrelated to a particular field covered in the robotics class, e.g. finding a paper in the field ofmanipulation and mobility after a manipulation lecture. The hypothesis of this work is thatthe topic that is assigned would affect the students relative interest in the subject and in pur-suing a job or internship in the field after the course has ended. During the semester, studentswere asked to look up papers of the same subject for the first half of the semester. In the sec-ond half of the semester, students were grouped into the topics of either motion planning orcontrol when being asked to look up papers in
aconcomitant need to address the varied preparation that students receive in mathematics beforeentering the university. The following paper covers approaches to DEI as a culture within theuniversity and specifically for the School of Engineering and Applied Science. To aid in thedevelopment and assessment of DEI initiatives a seven-member committee was created. Thecommittee developed a DEI Statement which is published on the Hofstra University website. Ourprevious ADRP plan of action to promote diversity in the student and faculty populationsincluded four measures: increasing the proportion of women, increasing the retention of African-American students between their first and second years, welcoming more international students,and maintaining a high
collection of EngineeringElectives, in line with ABET’s recommendation of covering topics such as basic science,college-level mathematics, and engineering design.The first-year curriculum is common across most majors in the School of Engineering. Studentsare encouraged to use the first-year engineering coursework (ENGR 1000; CSE 1000) to expandtheir knowledge of the engineering paths available to them at the University and the broaderpaths of engineering as a field. Students interested in Multidisciplinary Engineering will begin toengage in an area specialization coursework in their second semester and will continue to honetheir focus throughout a plan of study. In tandem with the general engineering curriculum,students work closely with their
appreciated. The third-year and fourth-year courseswere taught in the second and third years as there were several students in the first cohort whohad transferred from other majors and we accelerated introducing the courses to make a “6-semester plan” feasible for them to be able to graduate in either 4 or 5 years from when theybegan at the university.At the same time as we have been applying continuous improvement, the program has beengrowing significantly and that has fueled evolution and expansion, which are discussed in thenext section.Evolution and Expansion of the ProgramAs is to be expected in any new degree program, we have evolved, expanded, and grown, andwill necessarily need to evolve again as we go into our fourth year in the Fall of 2023
responded to an IRB-approved follow-up survey about their learningexperiences. Reflective student feedback from both multidisciplinary trips indicated thatengineering students deepened their understanding of chosen topics in consideration of global,cultural, and societal factors, and that the non-engineering students enjoyed the visits more thanthey expected and overcame initial fears about engineering-related coursework, discoveringengineering practices in many aspects of their social lives. Overall, the students gave positivefeedback about the multidisciplinary trips and demonstrated achievement of the learningoutcomes. In the future, the authors plan to continue collaborations to further integrate the coursemodules and regularly evaluate the
canaddress them. In this stage, research scientists can collaborate with applied scientists,economists, and data scientists depending on the action that is being taken in the productexperience. In all cases there is engineering work required to make the desired changes, integratethe product with additional features, or setup the infrastructure to pilot new experiences.These product innovations are accompanied by an evaluation plan to measure the causal effect ofthe changes or new features on the outcomes of interest. The goal of the evaluation plan istypically to determine if the customer problem has been solved, which is often the definition ofsuccess. Economists and data scientists typically lead the causal inference part of the scienceworkflow.It
respective engineering disciplines, and their interests in sustainability topicsto address the challenges. The three chosen project topics were: • Growing & Greening: Enriching the City of London Using Rooftop Gardens • Transit & Living for a Kind and Sustainable London • Sustainable Development in London Using Local Climate ZonesThe sustainability plans were developed as recommendations to the City of London and werepresented to the Directors in the Environment and Infrastructure Division, and Acting Mayor ofthe City of London. The learning experience demonstrated an opportunity for knowledgesharing, engagement with stakeholders, mentorship by experts, collaboration in teamenvironments, transdisciplinary thinking and
. This is definedas "a student's beliefs in his/her ability to organize and execute courses of action required toproduce certain accomplishments, concerning the aspects comprised by academic taskspertinent to higher education" [3]. Academic self-efficacy beliefs can assist the student in planning to use the personal andenvironmental resources necessary to adjust to university. In addition, it can lead the studentto a sharper perception of his or her ability to organize and execute actions necessary to achieveincreasingly adequate levels of academic achievement and adjustment to the universityenvironment, affecting the individual's choices and perseverance [4]. Students entering university, in general, tend to have lower perceived
CSCL-tool are considered. However, participants differ in theirinterindividual tool usage, e.g., webcam usage, due to personal or technical reasons. In result, aCSCL-session planned on a web-conferencing platform can unintentionally turn into a session ona spectrum from videoconferencing (all participants use their webcam and microphone) overaudioconferencing (participants refusing webcam usage) to synchronous text-chat (webcam- andmicrophone-refusal). In worst case this can cause misleading conclusions about the didacticmatch between tool and task with negative effect on teaching and learning. To consider theusers’ interindividual tool usage, we conducted an online experiment with 45 undergraduatestudents building 15 three-student groups
initial phase of the MDC design process that involvesidentifying the problem that the student team is assigned to complete. This phase is given 4weeks for the students to define in detail the project objectives, root causes and requirementsbefore moving into the conceptual solutions phase. As the teams progress through the designprocess, teams review and revise their problem statement as a way to introduce new knowledgegained and to reevaluate and redirect the project direction. Validation of their final design andresearch/prototype requires a plan that connects back to the user needs and original problemidentification.Retrieval Practice is incorporated in the MDC program as the students build a report over thetwo-semester sequence. The report is
accreditation, program assessment and eval- uation process and was recently (2016-2019), the accreditation coordinator for the school of Engineering. Her interest in engineering education emphasizes developing new classroom innovations and assessment techniques and supporting student engagement. Her research interests include broadening participation in STEM, equity and diversity, engineering ethics, online engineering pedagogy, program assessment so- lutions, transportation planning, transportation impact on quality of life issues, and bicycle access. She is a proud Morgan Alum (2011), having earned a Doctorate in Civil Engineering, with a focus on trans- portation. Dr. Petronella James earned her Doctor of Engineering
to design asustainable action plan for a company in Brazil. Two second year courses, GeneralEngineering Energy Systems and Chemical Engineering Conservation Principles, weretaught to provide background knowledge of how energy systems work, concepts ofmaterial and energy balances, and how chemical reactions can be manipulated inprocesses for sustainability and energy efficiency purposes. These courses were taughtto provide an understanding of systems learning as it related to sustainability frommultiple engineering disciplinary viewpoints. There were lectures and readings to helpstudents learn how sustainable technologies are implemented and regulated in Brazil.The learning of these concepts was strengthened by interactions and visits
started in (another department) and was disappointed by the lack of hands-on and individualized learning opportunities within the department. The teaching style and environment didn’t match with my way of learning or what I value and believe. Once hearing about this program and its structure I realized it was what I had been envisioning and wanting the whole time so I switched. I wish I had learned about it - in an equal emphasis kind of way to the other engineering options - when applying.”Focus group students discussed why they entered or transferred into the IDE program, theirindividual goals and plans, and how their pathways felt different than the traditional engineeringmajors in the college. Their responses
only a limited perspective on studentexperiences. As such, our current assessment measures can give only broad stroke reflections onthe successes and challenges faced in developing the micro-credential; a more comprehensiveassessment will be more feasible once several cohorts have completed the DSMC.Challenges for Students and Administrators in DSMCThe DSMC endeavored to provide students and the local community with an introduction to datascience and its key skills. Both students and faculty/administrators faced several challenges inachieving our goals.As with many new programs, one of the primary barriers to success was the interruptive natureof COVID and the pandemic, which caused a number of changes to the DSMC plans. In additionto pushing
in an online learning environmentinclude requiring synchronous online meetings [2], having weekly online discussion sessions thatpromote a sense of community [2, 12, 9, 33, 18, 31, 34, 25], dividing teaching content intosmaller modules to help students focus [12, 9, 14, 18, 19], having a back-up plan for unexpectedissues, slowing down speech during lectures to allow students to capture key points,utilizing teaching assistants to share the extra requirements, using various methods to modifyhomework and reading to strengthen students’ active learning outside of class, providingtimely feedback to student assignments [9, 19, 31], making compelling lecturevideos, establishing a presence with a welcome message, frequent notices and feedback [12
4. Stages of the Raise Your Handfor each of their projects, such as the overhead project.dome screen and the computer vision system,which comprises cameras and pose detection software. Also, some students attempted to make acomputer visual model of what the whole exhibit would look like.In the second semester, the VIP team focused on developing higher fidelity prototypes for mostof the projects and ended the semester with demonstrations of the projects. The instructors hadexpected these demonstrations to be cohesive demonstrations by each sub team, however, theyended up being done project-by-project, in series by individuals or pairs of students. Even thoughthe exhibit plan called for desktop computers in the lab to be what controls the
. Integrating forced displacement into engineeringeducation offers an opportunity to expose students to the potential of using their technical skillsto address complex societal challenges. It can also demonstrate the limitations of approachingsuch issues from a single perspective and the shortcomings of working within isolateddisciplines. Though the aim of such a course is to instill in students a long-term desire to engagewith the issue of forced displacement, framing concepts this way can also empower students totackle similarly complex issues requiring interdisciplinary thinking beyond their time in theclassroom. Course Planning and Development Recognizing the need for courses/modules meant to equip
faculty and second in the number ofundergraduate engineering degrees granted to Hispanics (American Society for EngineeringEducation, 2023). Table 1 delineates the undergraduate engineering enrollment across variousacademic programs using data provided by the UPRM Office of Planning, Research, andInstitutional Improvement.Table 1. Summary of undergraduate engineering enrollment for the first semester of 2023-2024 Academic Program Total Female Male Civil Engineering 629 181 448 Electrical Engineering 586 69 516 Industrial Engineering 621
includes three mandatory co-op work experiencesthat alternate with the academic semesters after a student completes their second year. The firstsemester of the Capstone project is in the second half of a student’s third year during the Summersemester, and the second semester of the project is in the first half of their fourth year during theSpring semester.The Engineering Capstone course objectives are for engineering seniors, operating in designteams, to apply principles of the design process to create a product or process to meet the needs ofa customer. Projects may originate in industry, as a contest sponsored by a professional society, orin other venues. The design team, with the guidance of a faculty advisor, must plan, direct,conduct, and
which we would like tomaximize the thickness of arrow e, ideally to match the associated grit level designed by theprogram. To maximize the engagement of interdisciplinary students, quizzes should beeliminated and replaced with a highly complex set of homework problems that span multipledisciplines. For instance, constructional engineers are to be encouraged or even required to solveissues on highway planning and bridge construction using stochastic models. The pedagogicalinnovation here is to leverage the theorized link of cognitive diversity and intrinsic motivation(Section 3.1). As such, students from different majors will find problems related to their chosenmajor of study interesting and intellectually stimulating. Cognitively, they would
education focusDr. David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University David Knight is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and also serves as Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation in the College of Engineering. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering education can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, and considers the intersection between policy and organizational contexts. Knight currently serves as the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering Education.Ms. Isil Anakok, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Ms.Anakok is Ph.D. candidate in the
which wecan examine the ways in which design shapes our built environment, the systems thatgovern it, and how those systems in turn shape our communities and individuals. Thisapproach to design focuses on creating equitable outcomes for marginalized communitiesand centers the voices and perspectives of those who have been traditionallyunderrepresented in design decision-making. Design Justice practitioners work to ensurethat design is accessible, inclusive, and equitable for all.“Design mediates so much of our realities and has tremendous impact on our lives, yet very fewof us participate in design processes. In particular, the people who are most adversely affected bydesign decisions — about visual culture, new technologies, the planning of
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, various short-term mobility programs and student exchanges have been started. He is also Chair of the Mobility Special Interest Group of Asia Technological University Net- work (ATU-Net) and initiated a COIL program called Virtual Asia Exploration (VAx) by orchestrating the collaboration of six Asian universities. He is also an entrepreneur through his consulting company established in 2004, and has been rendering management consultation services to both small-medium size companies and multi-national enterprises such as global strategy planning, cross-border business entry, middle manager training, and partner development. These business achievements are reflected in his aca- demic activities through the designing of
papers that summarized the main idea or argument in that section. Revisiting our message box • Identified and defined the problem to be addressed in the paper. • Defined our audience. • Organized our thoughts to address the problem and create a solution. • Implemented the planned solution to fulfill our goal to solve the defined problem. • Discussed benefits of the defined solution to the problem. Improving our message and • Continued to improve upon the message box from previous workshops by those of other teams comparing our message box to
, affiliate and mentor faculty and instructors. They also presented at the Provost Teaching and Learning Symposium as shown in Figure 2. • Attending two advanced workshops with Faculty at the home institution • Peer Mentoring: Students will mentor their ENES 396 peers and provide evaluation on their teaching practices and facilitation throughout the semester. This includes them attending one lecture/discussion of their peers. • Team lead and facilitate one ENES 396 discussion/lecture. Students will plan and facilitate a topic in ENES 396 or in their own classrooms that will be approved by the instructor.After completing ENES 397 and a research project, students earn undergraduate CIRTLassociate certification
e. Differentiated Instruction e. Prerequisites f. Alternate plans. f. ContextFigure 2: The ECP Module Instructional DesignAdditionally, by incorporating active learning techniques that seek to develop student self-foundlearning techniques, the pedagogy should pique students' interest, which can lead to deeperengagement with the material. This increased learning capacity and engagement can promotedeeper cognitive processing, enhancing schema formation and automation.MethodologyThis study provides an overview of the investigation in the chemistry department a HBCU usinghands-on mobile devices consisting of an input and output board. The purpose of this approach isto replace the traditional laboratory
internationalization of SIT and its partner universities throughout the Southeast Asian region. Under his initiatives, various short-term mobility programs and student exchanges have been started. He is also Chair of the Mobility Special Interest Group of Asia Technological University Network (ATU-Net) and initiated a COIL program called Virtual Asia Exploration (VAx) by orchestrating the collaboration of six Asian universities. He is also an entrepreneur through his consulting company established in 2004, and has been rendering management consultation services to both small-medium size companies and multi-national enterprises such as global strategy planning, cross-border business entry, middle manager training, and partner