, principles, and guidelines will be discussed. Second, an overview of theexperiential education program at NSU and the role of faculty champions will be presented.Third, a case involving the re-design of an engineering graphics course will be shared includinghow an experiential education course qualification form and rubric were used to guide coursedesign and formative evaluation. Finally, next steps will discuss plans for continuousimprovement and refinement of the course design and formative evaluation process.Experiential Theories, Guidelines, and PrinciplesGrounded in the early works of Dewey, Lewin, and Piaget, experiential learning theory hasbecome increasingly popular in higher education. “In its simplest form, experiential learningmeans
students. The new Engineering Plus degree has a core setof required foundational courses in engineering, a multi-year design sequence, and allows forself-defined pathways. The new curriculum also offers three defined degree pathways that havebeen chosen based on an examination of student “fate” data: secondary education, pre-medical,and environmental studies, with additional pathways planned for the near future. The fateanalysis examined the paths of students who were enrolled in an engineering or STEM major inone year and samples their major choice in the following year. This analysis maps the flow ofstudents into and out of the major with demographic slicers to more closely understand these in-migration and out-migration choices.This paper will
college planning to major inscience and engineering fields according to the 2016 NSF’s National Science Board Report onScience and Engineering Indictors1. This incoming large flux of students is essential to reducethe shortage of STEM graduates in the United States2-4. Studies have shown that students whoparticipate in STEM programs before college increase their chances to succeed5-8. Theseprograms provide them with important knowledge and skills and help them gain a betterunderstanding of science and engineering careers.This paper describes a two-week STEM Summer Enrichment Program (STEM-SEP) designedfor high school students. STEM-SEP’s goal is to improve the recruitment and preparation ofstudents, particularly those from underrepresented groups
life routine, taking in consideration the possible displacement problems to the elderly and disabled, caused by minor changes within the residential interior floor plan layout. During the project planning, students worked within the defined goals and required assignment functionality. During this phase, the students and faculty had to determine the scope of the project
. Thecurriculum then culminates in a twenty-nine hour focus area that customizes the degree plan for aparticular area of the job market. Currently, the degree has a single focus area in Mechatronics,preparing students for careers in the design, development, implementation and support ofelectromechanical systems that are controlled through embedded hardware and software. The MXET degree is now being expanded to include new additional focus areas. The firstone of these areas is STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) TeacherPreparation. In collaboration with the College of Education, a MXET focus area is beingcustomized to produce graduates who can sit for their Mathematics/Science/Engineeringcertification and who can teach at the
, Success for Calculus,to give these students a fresh start and the opportunity to reinforce their mathematicalpreparedness while also addressing many of their struggles with non-mathematical issues. Wediscuss how this course has evolved, its structure, and its impact on our students.Unclogging the Calculus PipelineIn 2013, the administration of Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T)released a new strategic plan. One goal stated in the strategic plan was, as a campus, to “modifyour conventional methods of teaching to accommodate current, new and advanced technologythat will enhance student learning and increase faculty productivity.” While this soundssufficiently general (as would befit a strategic planning document), the
University in the Industrial and Man- ufacturing Systems Engineering Department. He graduated in 1999 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a PhD. in Industrial Engineering in the Human Factors Program. His research interests focus on human factors, human-computer interaction, and adaptive systems that enable people to be effective in the complex and often stressful environments found in aviation, military, robotic, and space applications. His teaching methods include team projects and the application of team-based learning methods into the classroom.Cassandra DoriusJane Rongerude PhD, Department of Community and Regional Planning, Iowa State University Jane Rongerude is an assistant professor in the
transformation, participants completethe seminar with an Action Plan that applies their new knowledge to practices within their sphereof influence. The OREGON STATE ADVANCE leadership team follows up with participantsthrough quarterly all-cohort gatherings, and connects individuals across colleges who proposesimilar actions.The power of the seminar for institutional transformation comes in large part from its“sensemaking” of personal experiences of discrimination within institutions. Literature ongeneral institutional transformation suggests that sensemaking is an important factor insuccessful transformation. Researchers have found a number of effective strategies forinstitutional change in higher education: solid administrative leadership
underrepresentedbackgrounds for the STEM workforce. Like most institutions, however, we struggle to recruit amore diverse faculty, especially those from underrepresented minority (URM) groups. Indeed, asof fall 2017, Black faculty represent only 7%, and Hispanic faculty only 5%, of our tenure-trackfaculty, while our student body is 17% Black and 7% Hispanic. We have made significantprogress, however, in promoting gender diversity in STEM. In 2003, we received a $3.2-millionNational Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (IT) grant torecruit, retain, and advance women tenure-track faculty in STEM. Under our ADVANCEprogram, we developed and implemented such policy and programmatic initiatives as acomprehensive Family Support Plan, the Eminent
staff. The paper concludes with implementablesuggestions for how to fully engage the lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and others (LGBQ+)population in the ASEE Dean’s Diversity Initiative. IntroductionIn 2011, the ASEE Diversity Committee was formed and charged with developing a strategicplan “to position the Society to increase diversity in the profession” [2, Sec. Strategic Plan]. InOctober 2011, National Academy of Engineering member Dr. Lynn Conway appeared on thePrism magazine’s cover to accompany an article titled, “Secrets are out: Lesbian, gay, bisexual,and transgender engineers are no longer willing to hide their true selves” [3]. Dr. Conway was aformer IBM engineer who made significant
program team adapt the EDP course progression from the high school summerprogram into full engineering courses for implementation in high school classrooms. The coursesthat arise from Hk Maker Lab’s curriculum development efforts are to: 1. Enhance student interest in pursuing STEM education and career opportunities; 2. Enhance student STEM self-perception; 3. Develop student engineering design skills. This paper describes the structure and programmatic activities of the curriculum developmenteffort, as well as preliminary assessments and future plans for refinement.PROGRAM COMPONENTSProgram ParticipantsNew York City science, math, and engineering high school teachers are recruited to apply for theEDP curriculum development program
, distributed simulation, adaptive control systems, digital signal processing, and integrat- ing technology into engineering education. He has also been an industry consultant on modeling for strategic planning. Professor Elizandro received the University Distinguished Faculty Award, Texas A&M, Commerce and College of Engineering Brown-Henderson Award at Tennessee Tech University. He served as Governor’s Representative for Highway Safety in Arkansas and member of the National Highway Safety Advisory Commission during the Jimmy Carter presidency. He is also a member of Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Pi Mu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor societies.Dr. David H. Huddleston, Tennessee Technological University David H. Huddleston is a
.59 .27 .033a INI-1: Experimenting (All) 168 4.23 .72 61 4.41 .56 .18 .132b INI-2: Pitching (Paired) 41 3.15 1.20 41 3.23 1.13 .09 .569a INI-2: Pitching (All) 168 3.26 1.08 61 3.39 1.08 .13 .385b INI-3: Resourcing (Paired) 41 4.17 .70 41 3.89 .79 -.28 .061a INI-4: Planning (Paired) 41 3.68 .91 41 3.62 1.09 -.06 .842a INI-4: Planning (All) 167 3.55 .98 61 3.75
practice systems thinking by completing a project that focuses on acurrent issue or need requiring an engineering solution.The course deliverables listed in Table 1 includes: Project Plan and Journal (22.5%),Communication Skills (47.5%) and Technical Merit (30%). Students must take an ill-definedproblem and use a systems engineering approach to implement a proof-of-concept solution. Adetailed description of the weekly deliverables is given elsewhere and will not be described heredue to space limitations [1]. The Critical Design Review (CDR) rubric was also developed tobalance the course weighting between system-level thinking fostered by weekly deliverables andacquired technical skillsets from the MSEE program. The weekly deliverables are guided
outside professionals 3D printers to physically grasp design solutions Interactive smart touch technology to manipulate and interact with media If consideration and careful planning is given to a steel course’s structuring, it is possible tomix these two groups of technology together for engineering education practices. The first area to startwith is what topics in structural steel educations lends itself to nicely technology. Here, behavior anddesign can be simulated on software programs alongside hand calculations. Additionally, designs canbe documented and coordinated with other disciplines (within a building) to look at the larger contextof structures. Potential theorized
is presented first. Following this,approach and methods undertaken to design and develop product-based learning throughout theundergraduate curriculum are presented. Examples of course activities and the flow andintegration across the curriculum are provided. Preliminary results and lessons learned areincluded in the discussion of courses that have been reengineered to date. Other critical elementsto success, such as the project team and infrastructure needs, are also discussed. Finally, asummary is provided along with plans for future work.Related LiteratureA problem-based learning pedagogy of engagement provides a strong foundation for curriculumredesign. Smith, et al. [2], citing additional studies indicating the importance of engagement
-service teachers have with teachingengineering. Verbal persuasion includes encouragement from others as well as coaching. Verbalpersuasion is most effective at increasing self-efficacy when the one doing the persuading is seenas an expert [13]. Exposure to verbal persuasion is also likely to be low for pre-serviceelementary teachers, as engineering design is not a focus of the pre-service curriculum. A majorexception to this, as with mastery experience, would be those in the section of the sciencemethods course at Purdue University that utilizes engineering design. These students activelydesign engineering concepts into science lesson plans with students. This provides masteryexperience while the rest of the course ideally provides verbal
well as the barriers theyperceive to doing so. Results indicated that most elementary teachers support the inclusion ofengineering within the science standards for elementary grades. Teachers describe lack ofpreservice and in-service training, lack of background knowledge, lack of materials, lack of timefor planning and implementing lessons, and lack of administrative support as barriers toimplementing engineering activities within their classrooms.*The views and opinions of the speaker expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect thoseof the U.S. Government or any agency thereof.Introduction The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) incorporated engineering practices intoK-12 science standards [1], and because NGSS calls for
intends to enact change [22].Evaluators use logic models to examine implementation fidelity, when logic models have beendeveloped as part of a program plan [23]. In addition, logic models can be used as a framework,to focus data collection on the specified program activities and expected outcomes, to determineappropriate methods for data collection, and to organize and interpret data in terms of aframework [22]. When no logic model exists, evaluators may develop a logic model to describethe program visually. Logic models can be a useful tool for communicating the nature of aprogram to stakeholders. The use of logic models has been found to contribute to clarity in goals,alignment of activities with goals, communication about the program, and
Curriculum and Instruction (Science Education) from the University of Washington.Ms. Jill Lynn Weber, Center for Research and Learning Jill Weber is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Com- munication Studies and English. She has worked as a Project Manager in Information Technology as well as in the Marketing group at AT&T Wireless, and was a corporate trainer for new hires. Ms. Weber was in charge of managing large cross-company project teams and several large technology projects. In 2005, Ms. Weber completed the University of Washington Certificate in Program Evaluation. Currently, she is the owner of The Center for Research and Learning and has expertise in planning and
who acts as the project mentor. Eachproject mentor works closely with YYYY faculty in designing the project and planning dailyactivities related to project completion.Implementation of SEI from 2009 to 2016 has been successful in recruiting underrepresentedminorities and female students into the program, with more than 50% of participants beingwomen, and over 70% from underrepresented minority groups. Results of SEI implementationshow that the program has been successful in promoting interest in engineering among programparticipants, increasing their self-efficacy in studying engineering, and enhancing success amongthose who have decided to pursue an engineering degree. A follow-up survey given to thegraduates of the first three years of the
of our larger study.2. Prior Literature on Choosing Engineering in the Academy vs. IndustryFor nearly 60 years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has tracked information about USAPhD recipients, their post-graduate plans, and their employment experiences well beyondgraduation. At least in the USA, most PhDs work in academia, but this number is on the decline[10]. The tracking of this information by the NSF has led some researchers to ask what makesscientists and engineers choose the kinds of jobs they do. Yet, the research on self-selection intoan academic versus industry career in engineering is limited. To begin, almost all of it isquantitative in nature, much of it focuses on STEM PhDs in general, and almost all of it isperformed on
materials and methods to offer support for student success. Dr. Burkett is a senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of the AVS: Science and Technology Society, and a member of the ASEE Women in Engineering Division.Sally Gerster, University of Colorado Sally Gerster is a senior in Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder and plans to graduate with a combined BS/MS degree in May 2019. She studied abroad at the National University of Singapore for one semester. Sally has been a part of Bridges to Prosperity - CU Chapter, and helped build a footbridge in the Andes of Bolivia with a team of CU students in summer 2016. In summer 2017 she participated in UA’s REU Site: Innovative Engineering Using Renewable
the Next GenerationScience Standards (NGSS) (see Figure 1).Program PilotsThe Champaign, Illinois pilot was led by the program director (and program founder, Mr. Greer)and the program co-founder (Dr. Henderson) who developed lesson plans, led hands-onactivities, and trained program staff (undergraduate and graduate engineering students). Lessonsemphasized the engineering design process (Haik, Sivaloganathan, & Shahin, 2015). Studentswere given open-ended scenarios and were tasked to identify and research problems, developpossible solutions, and then plan, test and improve their designed solutions.The Houston pilot, initiated in the spring of 2017, combined the best practices learned from theearlier pilot and added a partnership with the
• Piloting two sections of a flipped classroom approach of information literacy instruction for deployment across all sections, traditional and online. This pilot included: o Creating a series of information literacy videos on understanding important engineering subjects such as scholarly and professional literature, standards, and patents o Implementing active learning curriculum focused on information literacy via 5 25-minute sessions strategically planned throughout the semester o Developing an assessment instrument to gauge the impacts on student learning outcomes of flipped versus traditional one-shot instruction.The task was conceptualized broadly as
developed by those students will be limited. Additionally, particular topics both at thebeginning and end of a university degree may open pathways for underrepresented groups likewomen to enter engineering at the university and in the workforce.In the prior study, “Sustainability and Gender in Engineering,” by Klotz and colleagues [20] of6,772 students from across the U.S., students who chose engineering at the beginning ofuniversity, both male and female, were less likely than students who planned to pursue non-engineering degrees to have outcome expectations related to disease, poverty, and opportunitiesfor underrepresented groups. However, for many of the outcome expectations that engineeringstudents were less interested (i.e., disease, poverty
-source feedback, professional grade trainingtools, and a specially designed development plan, these engineers begin practicing thecompetencies possessed by high-performing, professional engineers.This paper is comprised of two main components. First is a description of the program and therating format was specially designed to reduce common sources of rater-error in subjectivemeasurement. We discuss how behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) can provide a sharedframe of reference among raters and how we constructed BARS for each of our ninecompetencies. Next, our discussion presents the initial feedback results in two lights. The firstconsults the data as a needs assessment of the piloted cohort. By looking at the competencies ofhighest and
]. Spohrer [3] analyzed programming errors using a cognitive sciencemodel. Spohrer used a Goal And Plan tree to trace the root causes of errors, which defined plans(steps/procedures) as the techniques to solve the problem, and the goals as the desired result toachieve or accomplish. Spohrer found that once there is a mismatch between a plan and a goal,an error occurs. Yarmish used a similar approach but added more components to a plan [4].Other work suggests that errors occur due to inaccurate mental models about program state[3][4][7][13][14]. Horstmann [5] presents a list of common errors when introducing C++programming concepts and constructs. Horstmann presents common errors in each chapter,which may help students avoid such errors. Oualline [6
students are faced with solving an open-ended design problem, there may be specific partsof this practice that students either do not understand, do not implement correctly, or do notknow to attempt when solving open-ended design problems. Several studies have investigatedhow first year undergraduate engineering students in particular, approach design problemsolving, and their interpretation and knowledge of engineering design [4-7]. These studies usedvarious methods to evaluate students’ design thinking including pre- and post-tests associatedwith group design projects in a classroom setting [4], pre- and post-essay response critiques oftwo design plans [5], gender differences in students’ attempts to evaluate design factors [6], andshort essay
group plans to continue to meet to discuss the following: variations in ways to implementthe action plan, challenges to implementations and strategies for overcoming them, and ways tostudy the effectiveness of this action plan after the semester ends.Advisory Board EngagementOur project has a diverse external advisory board comprised of individuals with long-terminterest in the professional formation of students. These individuals come from industry, highereducation, and non-profit organizations, and bring relevant expertise in making and innovation,industry needs, faculty development, and undergraduate engineering education. Our approachhas been to enable each advisory board member to lend their unique perspective to the project ina very