UndergraduateInstitution (PUI) partner, Lafayette College. The program has resulted in a newly developed five-week course with asynchronous elements in a Learning Management System (LMS) and weeklysynchronous components via Video Conferencing (VC). Each weekly module in the LMSfocused on a different theme: 1) Program Orientation, 2) Conducting CenterResearch/Curriculum Development, 3) Engineering Education Standards/ Developing aProblem-based Engineering Lesson, 4) Adapting Engineering Lessons for Remote/OnlineTeaching, and 5) Presenting and Writing about Scientific Research (see Table 1 for detailedprogram agenda).Table 1. CBBG Hybrid RET Program Week Topics Asynchronous (LMS) Synchronous (VC) Program
that uses systematic but flexible guidelines to collect data often through interviews or theanalysis of texts. The researcher then analyzes data through coding and memo-writing. The goalof this method is to develop theories or provide new insights into social phenomena.Constructivist grounded theory recognizes that multiple perspectives and social realities existand promotes ongoing analysis and an openness to emerging ideas. Charmaz’s method alsoacknowledges that the researcher plays an active role in the research. As she explains, the resultsmust be firmly grounded in the data, however, the researcher and the research participants arenot external to the process. For example, researchers determine which questions to ask ofrespondents or which
experienceswithin the screenplay. Examples of this could be engineering/non-engineering or White/peopleof color. Next attendees fill out power lines on the intersectionality wheel by placing moreprivileged identities on the top half of the wheel and more oppressed identities along the sameline and at the bottom of the wheel (see Figure 2 for an example of this). After creating powerlines that emerged out of the scenario, the attendees are encouraged to identify -isms that willappear on the power line. In Figure 2, this is the addition of engineeringism along theengineering/non-engineering power line. Finally, at the end of activity 1, the entire group reportsout examples of power lines and -isms. Attendees are encouraged to write down any that emergefrom
sit through a lecture on basic circuits as a mechanicalengineer if you know that next week the topic will be forces and mechanical work. Similarly,visiting a potential employer site which employs many or all of the disciplines in the coursemakes it easier for students to envision how the skills they are developing will interface withthose of their peers in another discipline and how all the disciplines work together to developengineered solutions.One way that was simple to communicate which content “belongs” to a discipline was to usecolor codes on the schedule to show what activities/lessons apply to all disciplines(communications, ethics, engineering design process, etc.) and which are more specificallyfocused on a given discipline
at a level acrossthe college or above level, but they will also include students from your units/majors.What do these groups do? What are their goals? Often the students don’t know. They just jointhe group to be with their peers and see what will happen. While a well established group mightbe self-sustaining, most of these groups do need an advisor to help guide them.[4] Generically,the advisors job is to guide them to meet the goals of the group (e.g., to learn about theprofession of chemical engineering, to honor strong academic performance and perform serviceback to the community, or to provide a place for different cultural or affinity students to be withtheir peers). However, it is often the advisor that directly or indirectly has a
partially during a face-to-face class meeting. The guided practice assignment at thebeginning of this module used the following resources: Section 2.1 “The heat conductionequation”, Section 2.2 “Steady heat conduction in a slab: method”, Section 4.1 “The well-posedproblem”, and Section 4.2 “General solution of the heat conduction equation” from A HeatTransfer Textbook, and the CU screencast video “Heat Equation Derivation.” The group activityportion of Module 3 took place during a face-to-face class meeting. Two conceptual questionsfrom the CU ConcepTests were posed and discussed following a Peer Instruction model [38].Additionally, students worked together to complete two problems.The work for Module 4 (Temperature Profiles) was completed entirely
misunderstanding of the difficulties for them to engage material due to no real ● Set schedule challenging to interaction follow by students that have ● Students may feel isolated demands at work and home and less happy without the interaction with their peers and professorThis table shows some general differences between these two approaches. However, there areseveral additional variables to consider before determining which of the two systems is better fora specific course. Some of these complex
wastried and guide them to discover the solution.Here are several examples of the typical problem-solving scenario given to the students whereeach lab created a simulation of a real-world cybersecurity event: ● Extracted and analyzed malware from a binary image using opensource forensic tools. It was the infamous WannaCry ransomware that affected over 200,000 computers in 2017. ● Found a famous fugitive, John McAfee, by extracting coordinates from pictures taken of him while on the lam in Central America. [5] ● Created an encryption and decryption C program for one assignment and have it be continuously bombarded with garbage data to see if any security vulnerabilities exist. If so, students learn how to write more secure
speaks to our effortto help improve the quality and rigor of the research in the fieldis the conducting research section. In this section, we haveguides for writing research questions, choosing an evaluationinstrument, and reporting on activities. We have heard lots ofpositive response from the various guides on this part of thesite and there are conferences that are pointing to them intheir guides for authors submitting to the conference as a wayto help them ensure the quality of the papers they aresubmitting. However, the part of the site that is most importantto the work we are discussing today is the article summaries. 9 Articles Inclusion Criteria (https
module’s activities were shared. Each senior was required to present a brief (3-5 minute),informal update on their consulting project with a minimum of three (3) PowerPoint slides addressingtheir progress/status against milestones with the subset of seniors participating in the is modulefortnightly. The assignments included an initial presentation of the project scope, deliverables, andtimeline (Gantt chart) for all key project milestones. These regular activities assured that the clientneeds would be well understood by not only the consultant involved, but all of the seniors participatingin the module. They were then able to gauge how well they were progressing compared with theircolleagues. The peer to peer interaction was encouraged and
indicated they didn’t learnanything from writing the paper. The responses to the remaining statements are onaverage 0.22 lower than seven-semester average indicated in Table 4. Further, for thelast seven responses related to the solar still project there is an 11% negative response(disagree or strongly disagree) compare to a 3.5% negative response indicated in theseven-semester average in Table 4. ConclusionsA six-week long team project (design, build and test a solar still) conducted in asophomore design course has been described. While the individual performances for thestills were quite varied, the average performance of the eight stills was very close to the Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE
models in how we address such challenges. Thefocus and the mission of capstone leaders is to maintain the quality of project deliverables andthe integrity of client/sponsor relationships while still offering the capstone experience andmeeting program and ABET Objectives.In many ways this is a chance to be creative, embrace the currently evolving and newly emergingtechnologies, and rethink some legacy protocols. Vander Ark (2020) notes “Large integratedprojects build agency—the knowledge and confidence that you can contribute.” [1] Theseprojects teach project management, research, problem solving, writing, and presentation skills.Team projects develop collaboration skills and learners will have the opportunity to gainexperience in remote working
faculty than those without faculty mentors [5].However, undergraduates themselves may participate as mentors in other contexts, such as in K-12 STEM outreach programs.Few studies have specifically examined benefits to undergraduate student mentors. Surveys byMonk et al. [14] found that mentors improved their science communication skills and foundmentoring high school students to be a rewarding experience. Lim et al. [6] corroborated theseresults, finding that undergraduate peer mentors gained interpersonal and teaching skills. Arecent study by Huvard et al. [16] examined undergraduate mentors across peer inreach and K-12outreach programs, and found that in both programs, mentors “demonstrated evidence ofstrengthened metacognition and science
ways to incorporate input from all team members. Later in the semester, students learn about the performance management process, including completing self- and peer evaluations to provide constructive feedback on individual and team performance improvement. Peer review results are factored into students’ grades. ● Risk Management—Students learn the importance of hazard identification, risk analysis- informed prioritization, and decision making that enhance design robustness, tools, and processes including a Risk Management Plan and a Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA). Students then apply the teachings to develop their own Risk Management Plan, FMEA, and preliminary Verification and
should be housed. Additionally,several senior administrators unfamiliar with engineering education did not understand why theCollege of Engineering would house engineering education instead of the College of Education andHuman Development. Providing examples of other peer institutions such as Purdue University andVirginia Tech, both of which house their engineering education departments in the College of Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Baylor University, Waco, TX Copyright 2021, American Society for Engineering Education 3Engineering, set a precedent for Texas A&M University
-student partnershipsembolden students to read and write (both code and written word) with computer science,science and technology studies, and anti-racist feminist studies. Ultimately, the author outlinesthe importance for computing education researchers and practitioners to draw upon the field’sinterdisciplinarity to center justice within computing education research.2. Literature ReviewCritiques of how computer science educators have approached equity are especially relevantbecause of the national scale, funding, and deployment of computer science education initiatives.Although national initiatives (e.g., CSforAll) orient their missions around the language of equity,access, and (under)representation, these initiatives tend to have
activities is provided for the course instructor. More information aboutEvaluateUR and EvaluateUR-CURE are found at http://serc.carleton.edu/evaluateur.Table 1. EvaluateUR-CURE Outcomes Outcome Categories Outcome Components Communication • Uses and understands professional and discipline-specific language • Expresses ideas orally in an organized, clear, and concise manner • Writes clearly and concisely using correct grammar, spelling, syntax, and sentence structure Creativity • Shows ability to approach problems from different perspectives
been found that womenmake almost 50% of the workforce but hold only 28% of jobs in STEM fields [3]. Manyinstitutions and organizations have realized this challenge and provided various activities topromote female students into the STEM fields [2]. In addition, different strategies were developedto recruit and retain students in the STEM education [4-5]. Creating quality, attractive STEMprograms [6] and using peer influence to motivate high school girls to enter the STEM fields [7-8]appears to be effective ways to retain female students in STEM.Wentworth Institute of Technology has collaborated with local schools and organizations topromote STEM education. Since 2014 our university has organized a Girl Scouts STEM Dayprogram targeted to help
be mitigatedthrough scaffolded assignments, regular peer evaluations, and more frequent opportunities forindividual and team-based self-reflection [2], [8], [12].The transition to online instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic this past year onlycompounded the pre-existing logical and pedagogical challenges associated with engineeringdesign in FYE courses. The most pressing challenge for these courses in an online-onlyenvironment was ensuring students access to essential equipment and materials to design andconstruct a physical prototype. In general, programs responded to this challenge in one of threeways: (1) abandoning physical prototyping for an entirely “paper design” project; (2) requiringstudents to purchase third party construction
completed assignment was a lab which includedthe writing of a formal report. Performance on this assignment was compared across thedifferent teams, sections, and individual students’ results, with the goal being to determine ifcertain team formation strategies have a beneficial effect on performance for both the teams andthe individuals. Analysis of the data indicates that student-selected teams performed better onthe team assignment than teams formed using other strategies, but the observed improvementwas not statistically significant. We believe this was due to the small sample size. In addition,while there was no statistical difference in the incoming average student GPA for differentcourse sections, the incoming GPA of students did have a
format was chosen to accomplishthe following objectives: 1. Understand the morphological approach to the design of a complex system (1, 2).* 2. Practice the technique and procedures for innovation by de- fining a real life problem and developing a practical system for the solution (3, 4). 3. Experience the advantages and difficulties of working to- gether as a design team. 4. Communicate ideas through formal (written) and oral presen- tation before peers and a panel of professional practition- ers. In a period when the tendency has been to make the engineer awhite collar worker dependent on the computer and on theoretical stu-dies, we want to help tilt the balance
been multi-disciplinary with Physics and Mechanical Engineering faculty and students. Undergraduate andgraduate level students have also worked together. It was quickly found that scheduling issuesfor the repeated on-site visits would make it difficult for faculty to personally oversee allactivities. Therefore, a process of peer mentoring was relied on with more experienced studentsleading the development of new students on the project. As students rotated off the project (dueto graduation or other responsibilities) efforts were made to ensure that new students were fullytrained by the time they would need to take over tasks.III. PROJECT TASK BREAKDOWNThe first task performed for this project was a literature review. Students extensively
demandshigher-than-average time from students. To evaluate the student's perceptions of ourapproach, we collect data from several sources, including an online survey and groupinterviews, specifically designed to evaluate the perceptions of this approach. We concludethat our wellbeing protocol is beneficial for students and that students recommend itsimplementation in other courses with high enrollment.The wellbeing of students has been identified as central to student engagement [7]. Acomponent that distinguishes our protocol from other approaches to wellbeing described inthe literature, such as mentoring and peer-to-peer tutoring approaches (e.g., [4]), is that itengages in active, personalized communication with students. Furthermore, the wellbeingTA
lesson plan development • Technology supportScheduling- Most students on the EST time zone, 1 student in CST time zone- A 9-5 day with study halls, classes, and sessions in that time- Would schedule more breaks in between (longer lunch, or small breaks in between each session)- Students were zoom fatigued by the end of each day so by the end of the week, it was challenging for them to always stay engagedTechnology- Worked with PSU IT to get loaner laptops and hotspots to students who were having internet issues- Used Zoom for all sessions- Supplied students with electronic writing tablets for math class – which they then used to play PictionaryCommunity building- Activities and sessions ran by Program Assistants, students forming
working from home, including the difficultywith separating the work and the home environment. They mentioned having more distractions athome, such as the student who said, “I’m sitting at my dining room table trying to do this work,and I’m trying to meet with these people, and there’s like people doing dishes in the other room.My brother would be playing the electric guitar for the one hour in the week that I need to bemeeting with my boss.” Other students felt that lack of social interaction with peers and not beingaround other undergraduates doing similar research work was a disadvantage.However, overall, despite these challenges, students primarily thought that the remote environmentworked well for them.Description of mentor strategies used in
of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) studying Computer Science, soon to graduate in December of 2021. I am a first generation college student within my family in the United States. I take an interest in learning how technological solutions are utilized and the effectiveness of these solu- tions. Additionally, I want to be able to understand real-world problems and potential solutions to assess these issues. During the summer of 2021, I took the opportunity to work with an early learning organization, The Children’s Center (TCC), in South Carolina. Continuing the project started by a peer at USCB and working with another peer the summer of 2021, I learned the importance of working with real world problems and
, and have developed and/or co-facilitated several faculty development workshops, including UBC’s three-day course design institute, and, under the guidance of Bill Oakes, the one-day ASEE Service Learning workshop. I am a trained peer reviewer of teaching, and have over 10 years experience providing both formative and summative peer reviews. Currently, in addition to being curious about how best to train engineering students to work effectively in transdisciplinary teams, I am working with the Municipal Natural Asset Initiative to embed natural asset management techniques into engineering education.Dr. Peter M Ostafichuk P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver Dr. Peter M. Ostafichuk is a professor of
completed his PhD in CivilEngineering at Clemson University, where he also received his MS and BS degrees in Civil Engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Infrastructure Education in Unprecedented Times: Strengthening a Community of PracticeAbstractCIT-E (the Center for Infrastructure Transformation and Education) was founded in 2013,catalyzed by a National Science Foundation grant. During the grant, faculty members fromaround the country gathered for six workshops to co-create an entire model introduction toinfrastructure course. These materials have been peer-reviewed and are available at no charge toanyone who wants to use and/or adapt
culminatingsenior experiences. These activities demand students’ time and effort, interactions between facultyand their peers, especially for students from different racial or ethnic backgrounds. Short-termgoals are also essential for engineering students' academic success as they influence learningstrategies for tasks related to students' courses [12]. Research has shown that self-efficacyimproves learning and understanding in introductory (“Gatekeeper”) engineering courses [5].Methods“The NSSE survey, launched in 2000 and updated in 2013, assesses the extent to which studentsengage in educational practices associated with high levels of learning and development. NSSEannually collects information at hundreds of four-year colleges and universities about
Paper ID #33060Collaborative Learning in an Online-only Design for ManufacturabilityCourseMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is interested in engineering design and lends her technical background to her research with the Collaborative Learning Lab, exploring how to improve ill-structured tasks for engineering students in order to promote collaborative problem solving and provide experience relevant to authentic work in industry. She also writes for the Department