. In fact, implicit biases can directly conflict with our explicitly held beliefs.This makes implicit bias a sensitive subject by nature.To introduce students to common implicit biases and spark reflection on their own potentialimplicit biases, each student takes an online Implicit Bias Assessment from Project Implicitdesigned at Harvard University [15]. This is done in class, and each student is given an implicitbias worksheet to guide their reflection and keep them engaged in the process. This worksheetincludes questions such as: (1) What assessment did you choose to take?; (2) Without sharingyour results [to protect student privacy and avoid discomfort on this sensitive topic], did yourresults surprise you at all?; (3) Based on your
to other courses, conflicts with other courses (e.g., due to scheduling, workload, due dates, etc.). Feedback to Instructor Information regarding opportunities to provide input on the course or teaching, as well as the instructor’s responsiveness to that feedback. Example student comments: “instructor gathered too much feedback” and “nice that she collected and responded to feedback before the end of the quarter”. Guests Information regarding the guest speakers, project advisors, project evaluators, or other visitors. Facilities/Equipment Information regarding the classroom space, physical infrastructure
Paper ID #22151On Epistemic Diversity of Engineering and Engineering EducationMr. Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, University of California, Merced Soheil FatehiBoroujeni is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cal- ifornia, Merced. His research interests are in nonlinear mechanics of biological filaments and uncertainty quantification. He has been also actively involved with education research and is currently working on a project on the philosophy of engineering and its pedagogical implications at the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL) in UC Merced
external evaluator or advisory board member on several NSF-funded projects (CA- REER, iCorps, REU, RIEF, etc.).Dr. Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University Dr. Richard got his Ph. D. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1989 & a B. S. at Boston University, 1984. He was at NASA Glenn, 1989-1995, worked at Argonne National Lab, 1996-1997, taught at Chicago State University, 1997-2002. Dr. Richard is a Sr. Lecturer & Research Associate in Aerospace Engi- neering @ Texas A&M since 1/03. His research is focused on computational plasma modeling using spectral and lattice Boltzmann methods for studying plasma turbulence and plasma jets. His research has also included fluid physics and electric propulsion using
August. The course is activity centric with learningobjectives written up in modules. The learning objectives are from three key areas: Excel,MATLAB, and math. The activities provide an opportunity for students to collaborate, network,and collect data. The modules focus on a way to teach concepts in Excel, MATLAB, or Mathusing that data. To infuse flexibility into the curriculum, the modules are applicable to differentactivities as long as the data lends itself to the lesson at hand. Threaded throughout the course areassignments to help the students learn about themselves and their learning styles.Having taught Living With the Lab, the author saw first-hand how a project-based learning7curriculum positively impacts and motivates students. The
areoften ignored as legitimate ways of being in engineering. Our prior work from a pilot qualitativestudy showed how students value the diversity of thought in engineering; however, theyacknowledged how certain ways of thinking and being in engineering are privileged in anengineering classroom, despite what is valued in the workforce [6]. These findings also providedpilot data to developing the constructs measured in the CAREER survey described briefly in ourproject overview.Project OverviewThis project examines the incoming attitudes and beliefs students hold about particular ways ofbeing, thinking, and knowing that are associated with engineering as well as how engineeringculture and education may shape specific students’ identities and
and STEM careers as well as the development of instruments and evaluation tools to assess these constructs.Dr. Euisuk Sung, Indiana University Euisuk Sung is a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Engineering and Technology Teacher Education at Purdue University. He has computer science degree and worked as a computer software developer for three years. then he served as an engineering and technology educator in high school for 9 years in South Korea. Currently he is working in NSF Funded project, titled TRAILS. His research interests are design cognition, maker education, computer science education, and all about STEM education.Dr. Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University
, Argonne, IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen powered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His current interests are in the area of packaging machinery system design & control, industrial transducers, industrial process control systems, modeling and simulation of Mechatronics devices and systems in virtual environment, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic devices, renewable energy related projects, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer aided design and fabrication of printed circuit board.Dr. Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University Northwest Dr. Mohammad A. Zahraee is Professor of
, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and engineering economics and ethics, and graduate finite elements, numerical methods, thermodynamics, statistical me- chanics, plasma fundamentals and gas dynamics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 What Can DISC and Motivation Profiles Disclose About Student Retention in Engineering?AbstractIn 2015 the engineering departments at the University of Denver (DU) partnered with theIndigo Project to perform an assessment of the freshman engineering students using DISCand Motivation profiles. These profiles are a part of the overall Indigo Assessment, whichhelps educators observe the non-academic traits of their students. The multi
institutionscontinue to push their goals and strategic plans of increasing the science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Attempts to increase STEM enrollment atUniversities consistently include the same concepts; bridge programs, learning communities,research experiences and group projects [1]. While attempting to increase undergraduateretention of (URM), these experiences often focus solely on first-year students. In order to meettheir needs, diverse students must matriculate through the Colleges and Universities via thepipeline from secondary education to employment. NSF [2] reports show the attrition rates forblack and Hispanic or Latino students in STEM fields from 2007 to 2013 is low. When lookingat all the students earning
experimenting with the curriculum to reduce the number of engineering credit hours,introduce of a project-based design spine, and the creation of a variety of structured curricularpathways aligned to the interests of our students. As more engineering programs diverge fromthe dominant pattern we can begin to empirically examine the impact of our program designchoices and, in time, both close the leaky pipeline of women pursuing engineering degrees aswell as increase the migration into the degree.References[1] L. B. Cavagnaro and H. Fasihuddin, “A Moonshot Approach to Change in Higher Education: Creativity, Innovation, and the Redesign of Academia,” Lib. Educ., vol. 102, no. 2, 2016.[2] M. W. Ohland, S. D. Sheppard, G. Lichtenstein, O. Eris, D
semester.Like many programs across the country, our engineering degree program enrollments havegrown steadily (in our case, at nearly 5.4% annually since 2006, meaning core courses arevirtually double in throughput). Motivated by growing student numbers we embarked on aneffort to use video lecture delivery in two key courses taken by all engineering students in ourdepartment. We did so nearly five years prior to the writing of this work-in-progress, and herewe report on the development of the materials, our experiences using the video lectures in class,student responses to the video lectures, and experiences with sharing the video lectures with newinstructors.This project began in the 2013/2014 academic year, when were assigned to co-teach both theyear
. concepts of inherently safer design Large, public, Gain an understanding and • Performance of “Project Risk Mid-Atlantic appreciation of safe laboratory Analysis” to qualitatively evaluate region, R1 practices. risk for each experiment, including potential effect on other experiments • One lecture to teach the Risk Analysis framework Mid-sized, Apply effective engineering • Design of experiments by students, private, experimentation
use among suicidal college students. Journal of American College Health 60, 104-114 (2012).14 Smart, J. C., Feldman, K. A. & Ethington, C. A. Academic disciplines: Holland's theory and the study of college students and faculty. (Vanderbilt University Press, 2000).15 Tonso, K. L. in Cambridge handbook of engineering education research (eds Aditya Johri & Barbara M. Olds) Ch. 14, 267-282 (Cambridge University Press, 2014).16 Kapp, E. Improving student teamwork in a collaborative project-based course. College Teaching 57, 139-143 (2009).17 Cross, K. J. The Experiences of African-American Males on Multiracial Student Teams in Engineering. (2015).18 Marra, R. M., Rodgers, K. A., Shen, D. & Bogue, B
of visuallearners, teaching methods should include frequent use of visual and tactile aids. In the literature of visual and tactile aids for teaching and learning, there are numerousstudies providing supporting evidence that such aids enhance students’ learning outcomes aswell as possible rationales, for example, aids reduce the burden placed on short term memoryfor engineering problem solving. Abstract concepts without direct physical representations can be found in manyengineering knowledge domains such as industrial engineering, systems engineering, andengineering management. Domain topics having abstract concepts include supply chains,enterprise computing, and complex engineering projects. Teaching and learning suchconcepts is
___Poor5. Other comments. ___________________________________________________The workshop overall was evaluated on the final day of the workshop as follows:Please complete the following questions. For the individual sessions participants could answerExcellent, Good, Fair, or Poor. Questions 3 to 5 had response choices of Strongly agree, Agree,Not sure, Disagree, Strongly disagree.1. Rating of individual workshop sessions: Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industry Visits/Field Trips, Preparing for College, Project presentations and awards.2. My favorite workshop session was: _______________________________________3. I am pleased that I attended
7th Grade (AB7G) has been launched as a pilot program from National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA), hosted by the University of Cincinnati and Purdue University. The program begins with students in the 3rd grade and continues each year until the 7th grade where the students are exposed to Algebra and hands on projects. The students’ progress and test scores are tracked and monitored. Our pilot sites meet two Saturdays of each month. All participants are required to have access to the Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS) web-based student assessment system or a similar software program. The system can measure which skills the student has mastered and skills in which the students need more
Jennifer Blue, Amy Summerville, Brian P Kirkmeyer1 A sense of social belonging appears to be a crucial factor in student success and retention in STEM. As part of a larger NSF-funded project, we collected data about students’ perceived social belonging in the department for a calculus-based physics course taken by the majority of engineering majors and in an early programming course. Students completed surveys in the first two weeks of the semester, and again approximately one month later, after the first exam (6-8 weeks into the semester). Students reported a decrease in belonging over time. We examined whether this pattern differed for several historically marginalized groups: women, non-white
, BradRoth, Julie Walters, Sanela Martic, Joi Cunningham, Kathleen Moore, Jo Reger andDavid StoneInstitution: Oakland University in Rochester, MichiganSubmitted to: 2019 CoNECD (April 2019) 1Oakland University started the Women in Science and Engineering program(WISE@OU) in 2011. The program was funded by an NSF ADVANCE PAID Grant(Award 1107072). The PAID grant program focused on partnerships for adaptation,implementation, and dissemination. The proposed project included a very largevariety of activities designed to recruit and retain women STEM faculty at OaklandUniversity (OU) with a four-pronged approach. The first prong involved a thoroughcampus analysis and
, an ideal institution would provide asmuch access and training for that tool, etc. as possible. Students must be prepared for theworkforce as it is today, not as it was 10 years ago.Educators should seek to create useful access points to learning wherever possible. Many accesspoints can be reused, and often the time input for the professor is mostly up front with long-termbenefits. This is true for online content like videos and notes, hands-on project plans, group-workactivities, interactive practice problem sets and exams (created through Typeform, Classmarker,the institution’s own site, etc.), and other access points devised by educators.Examples of Access Points to Learning (List not exhaustive): ● Class time ● Homework ● Textbooks
colleges [4].LLCs can take on many forms, but they typically consist of a group of students of the same orsimilar majors assigned to live together in a residence hall. With their shared subject interest,those students typically are taking similar courses. Many LLCs also require all residents to take acommon course, attend community building activities together, or work on projects together [5].LLCs also tend to offer additional resources including a faculty in residence, a staff of olderstudents to study with, department engagement events, and required advising.One example of an engineering LLC is at a four-year public university in the pacific northwest.This particular LLC houses roughly 68 first-year students per year in a coed residence
: vector addition, dotproduct, cross product, projection of one vector onto another, and the right-hand rule. This isfollowed by differential vector operation examples explaining the concepts of gradient,divergence and curl of a vector field. Other visualizations are based on examples thatdemonstrate the underlying concept of Divergence and Stoke's Theorems. After these vectorcalculus topics, the module includes visualizations on a broad range of EM topics such as:transverse electromagnetic (TEM) wave propagating across a coaxial cable, an animated particleaccelerator model, and plane waves that are incident on semi-infinite dielectric interfaces. Thetime-varying nature of the TEM wave inside the coaxial cable are generated using the Pythonscript
lifecycle ofdynamic products, which are part of the technology push market drive. Then, an example of a lablifecycle is provided using programmable logic controllers. The intended audience for this workincludes professors designing new labs, lab technicians, lab assistants, lab coordinators, andadministrators. They need to understand the importance and implementation of all these stages forscheduling, personnel planning, and funding purposes.IntroductionThe importance of experiential learning, active learning, and project-based learning throughlaboratory experiments and exercises is well documented in educational research and practice [1-8]. Also, the lifecycle of a product is analyzed in many design textbooks [9, 10]. The engineeringdesign process
academicpotential in high school, they may need more preparation to successfully transition from highschool academics into an engineering program at MSOE in addition to getting used to theMSOE’s fast-passed quarter system and campus facilities. The Carter Academy program isoffered fully-funded to students; participants are not responsible for paying for housing, food orclasses. During this summer residential program, which runs for four weeks, the students attendclasses in math, engineering, writing, chemistry, and physics, with organized study time duringthe evenings and projects. These classes are limited to about 18 students per section [1].The chemistry portion, Chemistry Preparation lectures, has always focused on studentpreparation for Chemistry I
Paper ID #30800Lessons from a Lower Division Mathematics Co-Teaching SequenceDr. Charles Lam, California State University, Bakersfield Dr. Charles C.Y. Lam is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics. Dr. Lam received his Ph.D. in Combinatorics and Optimization from the University of Waterloo. His research areas are in cryptography, digital watermarking, and STEM education. He is the PI for the NSF IUSE grant (NSF-DUE 1430398) for STEM retention, and the co-PI for the NSF Federal Cyber Service grant (NSF-DUE1241636) to create models for information assurance education and outreach. He is currently the Project Director
Community Development, Environmental Science, and Environmental Engineering Technologies.Lt. Col. Landon M Raby P.E., United States Military Academy LTC Raby is an Engineer officer with experience within both US Army Corps of Engineers and within Combat Units at the battalion, brigade, district, task force and corps levels. His experiences include four operational engineer assignments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and one engineer assign- ment in support of Operation Joint Guardian. His research and teaching interests are in master planning, water resources, sustainable LEED design, program and project management. LTC Raby teaches EV450 (Environmental Engineering for Community Development) and EV481 (Water
Mathematics and Statistics at Sonoma State University in California. Her research background is in areas of algebraic geometry and mathematics education. She received her PhD in mathematics and her masters degree in mathematics education at the University of Georgia.Therese M. Azevedo Therese Azevedo is a third year student at Sonoma State University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Statistics. Over the summer she had the opportunity to work with Dr. Anne Lucietto and Meher Tale- yarkhan (Graduate Student) on a project related to math anxiety focused on female and minority students. Therese has been able to continue this project with her research advisor, Dr. Natalie Hobson, at her home institution
purpose of this paper is to explain the process by which we improved a Minecraft-based educational intervention through incorporation of principles of video game design toimprove learner engagement. In this paper, we outline the research supporting use of digitalgame-based learning to improve kids' spatial reasoning, the elements of video game design, andthe steps we took between years 1 and 2 to improve our Minecraft-based educationalintervention. Results from both years are compared to show areas where our interventionimproved, and future directions and challenges are outlined based on lessons learned from theprocess. The outcomes of our project are intended to inform other efforts to employ digital game-based learning to maximize the utility
accommodatethe new” [42]. Additionally, students are motivated more intrinsically, rather than receiving 4external affirmation. This theory requires engagement on the part of the learner [43]. “Withoutsome kind of internal drive on the part of the learner to do so, external rewards and punishmentssuch as grades are unlikely to be sufficient”[42].Experimental Methods/Materials/Project ApproachEngineering State of Mind Instrument (ESMI) Interviews conducted in 2011, at the university in the department of xxx, [44] revealedthemes that were used to create and develop the survey used in this research. Measuring theidentified themes, a survey was
industry working with the ”Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat” where he worked on funded projects to compare different structural systems performance when made of steel vs. concrete. He also worked as an intern at Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) for two summers. Part of his work at IDOT involved collection and analysis of aggregates from different queries and sending reports to headquarters in Springfield, Illinois. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Enhancing Student Learning Through Pre-Lab Assignments and Virtual Reality / Simulation Components in the Strength of Materials Laboratory ExperimentsAbstractApplied Strength of