and socialinteraction which results in longer retention and active peer interaction/tutoring. The evaluationresults have shown that the impact of the game is effective and socially cooperative as a virtuallab and space for peer instruction.AcknowledgmentThis project is being partially funded by National Science Foundation NSF DBI- 0543614 andNSF TUES 1140939. CSc 631/831 Multiplayer Game Design and Development course studentsat fall 2009 contributed to majority of game concept, art work, DB, game contents, client andserver implementation.Bibliography1. T. Jenkins. On the Difficulty of Learning to Program. In Proceedings for the 3rd Annual conference of the LTSN Centre for Information and Computer Sciences , Loughborough, UK August 27 - 29
B. Moisture Transporttransfer heat across its body. Materials with high thermalconductivity coefficients transfer large amounts of heat. This Moisture transport in materials refers to the movement ofcoefficient depends on the components, porosity, pore size and moisture through a material's structure, which can occur as liquidfeatures as well as water ratio of the material [5]. In this project, water, water vapor, or a combination of both. This phenomenonthe thermal conductivity (k) is calculated from the well-known is critical in influencing thermal performance and structuralformula that relates heat transfer in Watts, and temperature integrity
the two sections were not taught in the same academic term. Thomas and Philpot (2012) examined students’ final exam scores and course grades in a mechanics of materials course.6 They found that there was no significant difference between traditional lecture-only sections and "inverted" (i.e., flipped) sections, but class attendance in the inverted sections was optional and primarily devoted to homework. Redekopp and Ragusa (2013) implemented many current best practices into a flipped computer architecture course including brief online assessments following video tutorials and in-class project work.4 They found that there was no significant difference between the two groups of students on "lower order learning outcomes" but significant
visible and less visible identities as they form their professional identity, specifically at the intersection of their racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and engineering identities. H´ector’s research projects range from autoethnographic inquiries that investigate culturally informed collaborative qualitative research spaces, neurodivergence and disability in engineering, and examining the structural factors that impact student experiences in computer engineering courses. H´ector has taught various engineering courses and is invested in showing learners he cares about them and their future success. He creates a space where learners can feel safe to experiment, iterate, and try different problem-solving
equity-oriented teaching.Author ContributionsDuring the project, Mann and Golecki conceived of, developed and delivered the workshop andco-facilitated the CoP. Hajj, Cvetkovic, Chang, and Ansari were CoP members and contributedto all CoP activities. Wright and Althaus are project co-PIs and conceived of and organized theoverarching DEEP Center workshop and CoP structure. All authors contributed equally to thewriting.AcknowledgmentThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.2308531. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] A. F. Cabrera, A
Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 98solution. The authors noted that many of the student teams “took advantage of (and put to gooduse) the ability to post digital pictures of prototyping setups, provide hyperlinks to all theirdevice datasheets, post their latest schematics and software listings for evaluation, and post videoclips of their project in action (as verification of their project success criteria).”The use of course management systems (CMS) such as Blackboard5 for educational applicationsof ELNs was reported. CMS are web-based software packages with many functions
is also a primary contributor to PEO #4.The written and oral communications skills described in SO #8 are mandatory for anyone employed as apracticing, responsible professional or a graduate student. The ability to document a project, discussalternative approaches with fellow team members, and to present progress to managers are all essentialparts of being employed or pursuing graduate study. SO #8 is a primary contributor to PEO #1. Thesesame skills contribute to PEO #2, because engagement in understanding and applying new ideas andtechnologies requires interacting with team members as well as other colleagues. This includes both oralinteraction and the ability to interact in writing. SO #8 directly enables PEO #3. Active
processes are in their infancy, andshould be more logically designed and strategically deployed in an integrated fashion withlearning outcomes and textbook content.Keywords: Distance learning, learning management systems, laboratory equipment, text books,workbooks, virtual laboratory, experiential learning, computer science, information technologyIntroductionThe survey results presented in this paper focus on the delivery of experiential, hands-onlearning resources by provisioning computer science labs. The survey data was obtained from ajoint survey project conducted by Pearson Education and iNetwork, Inc. The schools included inthe study had either undergraduate and/or graduate level cyber security degree programs. Thefaculties who responded to
operations, quickly becoming one of the primary consumers pushing increased modularity. Themilitary UGV market hit $668 million, as of April 2024 and is project to compound 5.9% annuallyfor the next 10 years, growing to $1.2 billion by 20346.UGVs are leading technology advancements in combat, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,logistics, explosive and mine disposal, and more7. The introduction of artificial intelligence andmachine learning techniques have enabled robots to accomplish increasingly complex tasks and reactto their environments in real time8 paving the way for increased adaptation of tool instruments.With demand projected to sharply increase, the need for military UGVs to be capable of performingmore tasks will rise as well
and complexity through survey analysis, revealing that smaller classes have the potential to improve individualized instruction, but does not consistently lead to improvement in the depth of subject matter covered, showing both the benefits and limitations of smaller class sizes in higher education.b. Assessment Methods: The nature and rigor of assessments, such as exams, projects, or practical work. In a study, Blatchford et al. [8] investigated the impact of class size on assessment methods and classroom processes by conducting a large-scale longitudinal study of over 10,000 pupils across more than 300 schools, finding that smaller classes facilitate more individualized teaching and greater opportunities for quality
services were owned by the localmining company and purchasable only with proprietary currency [6]. Over time, such effortsexpanded to support urbanization and railroads. Finally, federal projects beginning in the 1930sindirectly influenced the region and moved from a company model to a utility model, inspired byefforts like the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) [6].Figure 6. Example mining town power plants: left, Hutchinson, WV power house in 1927;right, Cascade, WV power plant (where mining ended in the 1950s) [16]The PresentThe mid-20th century marked a shift in West Virginia’s energy landscape, with large coal-firedpower plants dominating electricity generation. By the 1950s to 1960s, West Virginia was aleading electricity exporter, supplying
anonymous indirect assessment in the form of a survey. Thesurvey questions focused on the students’ perceptions of their learning experiences, classroomand project engagement, confidence in applying theoretical concepts, and the perceivedrelevance of lab activities to practical applications. Findings revealed that 50% of the reportingstudents felt "very satisfied" or "satisfied" with the open-ended lab experience, while 83% foundthe experiences "extremely effective" or "effective" in enhancing their understanding of corefluid mechanics concepts. These results suggest that while satisfaction levels vary, students feltthe labs were highly effective and thus achieved their primary educational objectives. The pilotstudy supports further implementation
determineduring the same exam period [1]. the answer for many multiple-choice questions, but even the open-ended essays, projects and case studies can be completed The web-services that have been utilized for exam solutions with competence through contract cheating on the web-services.during an exam include Chegg Inc. (Santa Clara, CA, No style of assessment is immune from the ease of academicwww.chegg.com), OneClass (Notesolution Inc., Toronto, dishonesty using the web-services. Within some courses, theCanada, www.oneclass.com), Course Hero (Redwood City, CA, students are to learn a wide
Paper ID #38032GR in VR: Using Immersive Virtual Reality as a Learning Tool for GeneralRelativityKristen Schumacher, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Kristen Schumacher is currently a graduate student in physics with a research focus on modified theories of gravity. She founded the POINT project (Physics Outreach and Instruction through New Technologies) at UIUC to bring these abstract concepts to a wider audience through virtual reality.Sonali Joshi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Sonali Joshi is a graduate student in physics with a research focus on effective models for condensed matter systems. She is
health [11]. These categories are echoed in the ABETEnvironmental Engineering curriculum standards: (a) mathematics, fundamental sciences, andfluid mechanics, (b) material and energy balance, fate and transport in/between air, water, andsoil phases, (c) hands on experiments and data analysis, (d) design of systems considering risk,uncertainty, sustainability, etc., and (e) professional practice and project management includingpolicy and regulation [32]. These categories form the basis of course groupings shown in Table2. Among the eight EnvE PUIs, three were selected for direct curricular comparison – Cal PolyHumboldt, Saint Francis, and UW-Platteville. These three cover the temporal and spatialvariation of EnvE PUIs. Two are public, state
. Her research draws from perspectives in anthropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences to focus on the role of culture and ideology in science learning and educational change. Her research interests include how to: (a) disrupt problematic cultural narratives in STEM (e.g. brilliance narratives, meritocracy, and individualistic competition); (b) cultivate equity-minded approaches in ed- ucational spheres, where educators take responsibility for racialized inequities in student success; and (c) cultivate more ethical future scientists and engineers by blending social, political and technological spheres. She prioritizes working on projects that seek to share power with students and orient to stu- dents
engineers’ engagement with public-welfare related, human-centred designing frameworks.Dr. Frederic Boy, Swansea University Frederic Boy is an Associate Professor in Digital Analytics and Cognitive Neuroscience at Swansea Uni- versity’s School of Management and an honorary Senior Lecturer in Engineering at University College, London. Previously, he did his PhD in Grenoble University and trained in Cardiff University, where he held a Wellcome Trust VIP fellowship. His research interests include brain science, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence and biomedical engineering. He is working on a range of multidisciplinary projects at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering, digital humanities and, more
components of the engineering curriculum—in engineering sciences, engineering design, and humanities and social science courses; that work resulted in Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018). His current research grant project explores how to foster and assess sociotechnical thinking in engineering science and design courses.Dr. Ann D. Christy P.E., The Ohio State University Ann D. Christy, PE, is a professor of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering and a professor of Engineering Education at the Ohio State University (OSU). She earned both her B.S. in agricultural engineering and M.S. in biomedical engineering at OSU, and her Ph.D. in environmental
and learning process. The goal of this project is to explore the educational philosophiesenacted in the most impactful undergraduate classrooms, according to graduate students’perceptions, in order to give the new educator a foundation for their own course design process.Previous ResearchWhy Examine Students’ Perceptions of Learning Environments?At the start of the new semester, students enter a classroom not as “blank slates,” but withparticular conceptions about teaching and learning based on their prior experiences5. As a result,the effects of learning activities and perceptions of classroom interactions among the instructorand the students may differ by student5,8. Further, research has also shown that students’conceptions about teaching
and interest include NationalGirls Collaborative Project, Girls in Tech, Association for women in science and Society ofWomen Engineering (SWE). There are so many examples of the populist attitude in the modernworld that extensive justification is not needed. It shows that society not only wants its youngpeople to learn this knowledge, but it needs them to, in order to sustain and progress the humancondition.The Open Source CommunityThe Open Source Community (OSC) may at first seem like a Marxist organization demandingthe distribution of knowledge and intellectual property. However, the opposite is true. It putsforth a radical free-market ethos, in that it asserts the protections afforded to large multi-million-dollar companies should be
Jurisdictions (where each member of your team lives) Reference: https://energycenter.org/equinox/dashboard/landfill-waste-disposalUpon their return to class with their homework and trash bags, students were introduced to thelarge project grant. Following IRB protocol, they were informed of their potential roles andrights should they choose to engage as participants in the research, as well as their option to notparticipate. All students elected to serve as participants. Subsequently, they were invited to signan informed consent form for both their participation in the research and consent for photographsto be taken in-class during the semester.Significant data from the Center for Sustainable Energy was shared to introduce the local
pre-service teachers. In addition to her professional role, Ms. Hayes is also a doctoral candidate in the Higher Education Program at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on community college students and transfer student success.Ms. Danielle Melvin Koonce, University of Maryland Danielle is a 3rd year PhD Student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland studying race and social movements. Danielle is primarily a qualitative researcher and has worked extensively on survey data and conducting interviews for several projects including a campus climate survey, the Women’s Resistance marches as well as Black Lives Matter.Ms. Christin Jacquelyne Salley, University of Maryland, College
Postsecondary Education at Western Michigan University. Recently, Dan has been involved with the Broncos FIRST FITW project and has developed ongoing research with stakeholders from Kalamazoo Promise and the Upjohn Institute. One of Dan’s most recent articles employed ma- chine learning techniques to model sentiments surrounding the previously announced tuition-free college program Americans College Promise - the article can be found in the Journal of Further and Higher Edu- cation. Dan is adept at quantitative and qualitatively methods and is currently finishing up a data scientist certificated fixated on Big Data, Geospatial Data, and Data Visualization. c American Society for Engineering
than either the ASI or Neosexism scale [85], [86], [87], two of the original fourscales used in the pilot study, so the SATW replaced both as a measure of explicit sexismIn order to include data on implicit bias, two items were added to the collection instrumentdirecting respondents to complete the online Project Implicit association tests for Gender -Science (IAT-GC) and Gender - Career (IAT-GS) and to report their final scores on each, asreported to them by the instrument [88]. Data were converted to a 5-point response scale forstatistical analysis. Notably, the validity of the IAT scores is dependent on data that reside in theProject Implicit database, so internal consistency of the reported scores for the Gender – CareerImplicit
. In the mid-1970s, David Kolb published works thatcategorized human learning styles and how they respond to various types of experientiallearning.2 At least three out of Kolb’s four learning styles benefitted most through “concreteexperience” and “active experimentation.”2 Furthermore, Schumann, et. al., reported that manystudents who leave engineering do so because of a lack of interest in the topics.3 In 2010, in aneffort to increase retention rates among engineering programs, the National Science Foundationsponsored a project called “Engage.”4 One of the three objectives of this project is to increaseretention by “Integrating into coursework everyday examples in engineering (E3s).”4 Also, asampling of recent papers that studied the
Teaching Excellence, and is a fellow of the American Chemical Society. She is active in the American Chemical Society as a Science Coach and Past Chair and Councilor for the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering; in RadTech as a standing member of the Technical Con- ference Review Committee; and for Project Lead the Way as an Affiliate Professor. She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Virtual Community of Practice (VCP). She enjoys teach- ing chemical engineering and, as an alumna of FOEE and VCP, champions active learning principles and provides support for
data collection are useful and valid, they also constrain participants’ responses to fixedoptions in the case of Likert-type scales and multiple-choice questions, and to verbal expressionsin the case of open-ended prompts. Few examples of other types of reflection activities (e.g.,graphing, sketching) have been presented or studied in the engineering education literature. In this project, which is part of a larger investigation into high performance design teams, weexplored the use of graphing and other visual techniques for recording designers’ perceptions oftheir design processes and products. Our primary aim was to introduce greater richness into theevaluation of designers’ behaviors and outcomes as we posed research questions about
managed a European Social Fund Project in Women in Engineering contributing to widening participation and inclusion of women engineers, developed and ran world-class innovative aca- demic practice methods in Career Development, Employability and designed and managed staff workload models. Since 2014, Jo˜ao developed and led transnational education partnerships in several countries in south East Asia and led a group of institutions under the group Star Education based in Singapore as Executive c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #28870 Dean and Senior Vice President. His
young age, withelementary school females typically choosing science fair projects related to biologicalsciences and males choosing projects relating to a broader spectrum of science andengineering-related topics (Brickhouse, Lowery and Schultz8, 1999). Females typically takefewer math courses than do males, therefore limiting options in math, science andengineering programs (Eisenberg, Martin and Fabes19, 1996).Generally, males tend to rate Page 12.295.6math and science as being more important and useful than do female students (Stage et al56,1985).While the number of females taking these courses is on the rise, women typically haveless definite
Paper ID #9857A Philosophy of Learning Engineering and a Native American Philosophy ofLearning; An Analysis for CongruencyMs. Christina Hobson Foster, Arizona State UniversityDr. Shawn S Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Shawn Jordan, Ph.D.is an Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Engineering atArizona State Univer- sity. He is the PI on three NSF-funded projects: CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society (EEC 1351728), Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?(EEC 1329321), and Broadening the Reach of Engineering through Community Engagement (BRECE)(DUE 1259356