assignments. While the individual assignments aim to explore student progress (andchallenges) within the teamwork setting, the team assignments reflect project progress, includingall ABET specific elements of the culminating design experience [1]. These deliverables includeteam presentations, major reports for each phase, as well as CAD packages, websites, and alsorequire a continuous peer assessment process to allocate merit within each team [11]. Instructormeetings typically happen weekly, with ongoing communication throughout. Over the winterbreak, the instructor team compiles the materials list for the builds, with purchasing beingexecuted by departmental staff. The capstone experience relies on departmental funding,however externally funded
development is integrated across the curriculum.Students take academic courses about leadership, practice leading their peers in a variety ofsettings and contexts and receive feedback about how well they lead. A similar idea can exist fordeveloping creativity in engineering programs.Engineering students must be taught the fundamental concepts of creative application ofknowledge along with the skills to employ creativity. Importantly, they must be provided with avariety of opportunities throughout the curriculum to apply in creative ways the technicalknowledge they are building and be provided with focused and specific feedback. They mustalso be provided with safe spaces in which risk and the potential for failure are not equivalent toa failing grade
for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Abstract ASEE 2022 Conference- International Track Developing Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects in Engineering EducationBackground: With increasing awareness of the importance of undergraduate students having aglobal experience, institutions and educators have teamed up to provide opportunities forstudents to collaborate with their peers around the globe. Collaborative Online InternationalLearning (COIL) is not new, but it has recently gained traction because of the pandemic, as apromising pedagogical method to deepen the global engagement of students without requiringtravel abroad
hear their in-person peers speak during the class and vice versa.In addition to the classroom audio-visual technology, the real-time chat functionality of thevirtual room was used to interact with the distance learning students in a more efficient way [9].An experienced graduate teaching assistant (GTA) moderated the chat throughout the class andanswered most of the questions from the DL students. If any question or issue raised in thechatbox needed the instructor’s attention, the GTA would inform the instructor immediately sothat the issue or the question could be addressed in real time before the class moved to the nexttopic.In addition to the Hybrid delivery mode used for the lectures, several other technological toolswere used in order to
with visibleidentities is simpler, marginalized people with invisible identities also seek community [1] [2] [3][4]. One such group of invisible marginalized people in STEM are LGBTQ+ engineers, whonavigate a chilly, heteronormative climate in higher education [5] [6]. Additionally, prior studieshighlight how students with multiple-marginalized identities face more barriers than those withone or fewer marginalized identities [7] [8]. Students resist this chilly climate and can overcomethese barriers by forming communities of support, gaining power within the department, andinteracting with peers to create a more inclusive culture [2]. Resistance to this environment canbe influenced by the visibility of students’ marginalized identities [1
populations (e.g., Black, Latinx, first-generation students,community college transfer students) [5]. Some of these students enter the university withexisting mental health concerns; others develop mental health challenges during college. Awide range of backgrounds and factors can influence a students’ mental health and wellbeing:living and financial conditions [6], academic preparation [7], student-faculty interactions [8],food insecurity, and family responsibilities [3], and peer relationships [9]. These stressorshave wider impacts on student success [3]: a decrease in a student’s wellbeing can negativelyimpact their educational experiences, leading to academic dissatisfaction, resulting indecreased academic performance or attrition [10]. A
paper on a topic from a list of provided topics or could propose a topic that interests them. Once students select their research topic, they proceed to work on writing a technical survey paper on the subject. Students must use acceptable technical writing templates for their paper and should rely on an adequate number and type of references to ensure a balanced and credible coverage of the subject. In the Fall 2021 course offering, students followed the IEEE conference paper template. At the end of the semester, students present their research to the entire class, practicing appropriate public speaking and communication skills and responding to peer questions and feedback. • Assignments: the
-efficacy.The writing exercises assisted in providing insight on the participants’ sociotechnicalcompetency before and after working with stakeholders in the summer sessions. Analyzing theessays over the summer sessions for 2019 and 2020 displayed clear results in the participants’understanding of what components are needed for a sufficient engineering solution. 2021 wasdone using the same protocol from previous years of highlighting the essays as described in ourprevious publication. The essays were analyzed for understanding the relationship between socialdimensions and technical components.The interviews were transcribed and analyzed for two different components for the 2021 fieldsession. Similar to previous years, the interviews were examined by
takenonline classes in diverse and remote environments. They are accustomed to learning under idealand less than ideal circumstances. The combined traits of increased professionalization, priorexperience with online learning, and persistence position student veterans to perform as well orbetter than their traditional college-aged peers during the COVID-19 crisis. In a study of theeffectiveness of Hyflex (Hybrid Flexible) learning conducted in the School of Engineering atThe Citadel, forced-choice and free text survey responses showed that student veterans matchwith and differ from traditional college-aged students in important ways. Results from this studycan be used to guide best practices in the Hyflex educational model, in order to better serve
the literature inbiological physics, a vast, active, and expanding field that links the phenomena of the livingworld to the tools and perspectives of physics.” [2] This compilation aided in building resourcepages for students in PHY 350 by providing guidance to seminars, videos, and recent peer-reviewed publications on specific biophysical topics as well the technologies used to investigatethose topics.In addition, Bloom’s taxonomy is an important guide in structuring the course and its activities.As depicted in Figure 1, Bloom’s taxonomy contains six levels of proficiencies ranging fromlower-order skills that require less critical thinking to higher-order skills that require a greaterdegree of critical thought processes. Utilizing all levels
available to studentson demand; RS identifies virtual lectures that occur as a designated appointment but may or maynot be recorded and made accessible to students later. Lesson Notes are simply lecture notesposted to the LMS prior to class; and Powerpoint slides function the same way. Video identifiesinstructional, third-party videos that are already freely available online that the instructor maydeem relevant to the course material. In the case of RAS, RS, and VoPPT, students have nochoice as to what they view—visual cues are reduced and attention is focused on one screen,which also makes group work and peer learning in real-time a challenge.4. ResultsAcross student cohorts and across semesters, students were consistent in their rankings of
engagement and address theneeds of kinesthetic learners [1, 2]. Perceived benefits from robot integration in introductoryprogramming courses include an increase in programming skills, peer learning, and studentmotivation [3]. It has been observed that along with fostering creativity, using robotics in thesecourses increases student success [4, 5]. In general, introductory engineering courses haveincorporated robots with a goal to increase problem solving skills [6] and overall programretention [7]. However, robots are often a source of frustration to students. McGill observed thatto gain benefits in student motivation in an introductory programming course, hardware andsoftware implementations need to be better investigated and developed to
develop hands-on experience with peers. However, duringthe pandemic and in the presence of social distancing measures, many uncertainties were present inconducting group work. As such, the labs were re-designed to be completed by individuals. At the end of the semester, we adapted and deployed a survey (based on earlier work byRecktenwald and Hall [2]) to collect students’ feedback and response to the new format of teaching.The main objective of this paper is to summarize the novel teaching setting and provide an overviewof the feedback we received from the students. We report on using Arduino microcontrollersto enable remote, distributed, individual, and hands-on lab work for an established senior-levelmechanical engineering course
andpolicies; research skills with respect to data analysis and problem-solving; as well as presentationand writing skills. The students and interns in the courses and internships also addressed anddebated on the various issues of sustainability, which encompasses social, environmental,economic considerations along with policies. The crisis of the pandemic on climate change isdependent on the policies of the governments towards which directions the economies need tohead. When the governments prioritize to shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy such as wind,solar, geothermal, biofuels, then the mitigation efforts of climate change could come to fruition.It is anticipated that with more ongoing collaborations across disciplines, the authors will be
7 8 8servers/cloudFinding research articles 11 9 9 10Reading research articles andunderstanding the peer review 12 10 8 10 11processDisseminating research atconferences – poster and oral 13 12 12 13presentationsThe how and why of technicalwriting during the research 14 13 9processPursuing an advanced degree in a 14 14 15 15 10STEM field (merged) (merged) 14 14Paying for graduate
engineering subject guides and the citation guides are used to enhance the teaching material. There are also many websites embedded into the slides that students can use to gain more information on how to write reports and avoid plagiarism. • Evaluation: Several "check on learning" quizzes at the end of the short modules where students can prove that they understand the main ideas taught in those modules, as well as a Google Form embedded into the CRS app at the end of the session that allows students to provide feedback on what went right, what went wrong, and how to improve. [19]A CRS can be a very powerful tool when used with an existing learning design framework. TheNearpod application was originally chosen for
these sessions and instructor andresearcher fieldnotes. The first author of this manuscript was the primary instructor, the secondauthor was a teaching and research assistant. Written artifacts from the TCs include theexplanations of Quick, Draw! [13] and a conceptual draft of one lesson plan using one of fourAI-related resources that we had introduced during the workshops. The TCs were also asked torespond to short reflective writing prompts regarding the reason why they chose a specificactivity in the lesson plan, how the activity they described in the lesson plan allows students toaccess the learning goals, and how TCs perceive applications of science and technology asimportant or relevant to students’ lives or to TCs’ work as
meaning making. Even so, reflectiveassignments are rarely employed in technical engineering courses. When reflections have beenemployed in higher education engineering courses, the focus has been on less technical artifactsincluding peer interactions [16], portfolios [17], or using course grades to measure the efficacy ofreflections [18]. That is, reflection is mostly used for behavior-based reflection (i.e., working wellin a group, learning a tool, or effective study habits) rather than more typical engineering content. Reflection assignments can be categorized to quantify levels of learning. Multiple studieshave offered categorical ways in which reflections can be coded [19-22]. Typically, these codingschemes focus on the student’s
your CAD 2 work) Iteration & Improving7 Engineering Communications & Ethics Engineering Ethics: Fabrication Memo Writing & Oral Communication Case studies Engineering Ethics & Intellectual Prop (Read cases before class)8 Design Review (DR) Presentations Presentation Day 2 DR Presentation slides (Business casual Attire) Memo 1 (Draft)9 Instrumentation Engineering Circuit tutorial DR Document Electronics & Sensors (Bring your project kit)10 Design Optimization Design Optimization Survey Circuit tutorial Engineering Data Analysis
. Having takenthe Library Juice Academy Certificate Program in Diversity and Inclusion Skills, we wereinspired by the work of a number of librarian-authors, including both BIPOC and non-BIPOCwhose work is foundational to our understanding of DEI. We wanted to use a selection of theirpapers to begin understanding the citation politics at play in STEM journals. In her essay,“Making Feminist Points,” Sara Ahmed describes the politics of citations as “a rather successfulreproductive technology, a way of reproducing the world around certain bodies [3].” If thesefoundational authors writing about DEI aren’t being cited in research on DEI, who is?Literature ReviewDEI in LibrarianshipMuch of the literature on DEI topics in librarianship can be divided
]. Activelearning increases student performance in science, engineering and mathematics [2]. Activelearning strategies for college courses were discussed in [3], including pause procedures duringlectures, group discussions, clickers, peer reviews and games. Student-centric learning requiresstudents to take ownership of their learning and places emphasis on students’ interests, abilitiesand learning styles [4]. Research has shown that the implementation of a problem-based activelearning model had positively affected students’ academic achievements and their attitudestowards science courses [5]. Prince in [6] reviewed the effectiveness of active learning, andidentified the common forms of active learning most relevant for engineering faculty. The studyfound
what new topics were covered and how much time was spent on each. Many of the topicslisted (Table 3) are logical as gap fillers or more importantly to provide skills needed for thecapstone project. The only topics covered by more than one program were photovoltaic design(three schools), sustainability (three schools), ethics (three schools) and technical writing andpresentation skills (two schools). Topics longer than 1 week (3 days), consisted of sustainability,carbon analysis, lifecycle assessment and technical writing. Each of these were taught in thoseprograms for 2 weeks. Table 3: Capstone Course Lecture Content 1 Day: Lecture Content 2 Day: Lecture Content 3 Day: Lecture
follows: Approximations [of practice] represent an opportunity to engage in aspects of practice with additional support and under conditions that are designed for optimal learning. Approximations generally try to target specific elements of practice and create conditions of reduced complexity in order to make it easier … to try out new elements of practice while reducing the consequences of failure. [9]Two well-known types of approximations include: (a) teaching individual students or smallgroups of students within field experiences [1, 10]; and (b) peer teaching experiences wherePSTs teach other PSTs and/or their teacher educators who assume the roles of students [11, 12].Regarding the former, the field experiences
Values, Modules Lab 10, 10b 11 (11/5-11/9) Writing Functions, Scope Lab 11, 11b 12 (11/12-11/16) Functions and use in top-down/bottom-up design Lab 12, 12b 13 (11/19-11/20 ) Systematic Debugging Lab 13, Team Project assigned 14 (11/26-11/30) Topic TBD 15 (12/3-12/5) Last exam Finals Week NO FINAL Team Project due MethodsThe new engineering course's curriculum redesign was already complete. The purpose of this workwas to establish a pilot program to
. This section comprises four 50-minute lessons. 5. Section 5: Storytelling. Students revisit the formation of reservations by analyzing four treaties, uncovering another discussion on termination, relocation, and forced assimilation. The teacher introduces sensors, and students learn to collect data using the sound sensor on the microcontroller. Students discuss the diversity of data collected among users and the need for inclusive design when making new technologies. Students tell their stories to their peers, supplemented by the symbolic narratives of their ledger art projects. This section comprises three 50-minute lessons.The purpose of our efforts is to integrate CS into Montana schools while also delivering
2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationThe classmates listening to a lecture by another student found this technique to be useful andamusing. All of them agreed that each student delivered a very good class presentation. No onecomplained about these sessions.A formal quantitative assessment on this teaching approach was not conducted. However, thestudents are planning to give their assessment in two different forms. First, they are in theprocess of writing a manuscript on this learning experience, and they hope to present and publishit at a future ASEE conference. This article will be
a two-credit course together, and various co-curricular activities. For thecourse, students read articles and watch videos curated by the instructors. Studentsthen engage in short writing exercises, small group discussions, and then full classpresentations. Other active learning models such as design exercises are beingutilized. Topics covered during the two quarters include racism/anti-racism, sexism/anti-sexism, social media, AI, robotics in policy, robotics in the military, privacy, geneticengineering, biomechanical augmentation, ethics, diversity in engineering and computerscience, and infusing JEDI into engineering/computer science education. Students areexploring how recent and new technology is codifying systemic oppression based
, Belongingness, Expectancy, Instrumentality, and Connectedness. Members of this cluster may include students who do not identify with engineering as a profession or as an academic field of study. • Cluster 4: Without Feeling of Support from Faculty and Peers (n = 94). Cluster 4 has the fewest members and displays strongly negative values for several NCA factors that may predict lower student success. Members of this cluster scored lower than all other clusters for Engineering Identity, Instrumentality, Perceptions of the Future, Expectancy, Belongingness, Agreeableness, and Perceptions of Faculty Support.Data CollectionAt Cal Poly data collection began in the 2017-2018 academic year using the Scantron version
Kelsey Watts is a fifth-year graduate student at Clemson University. She is part of the Engineering Education Research Peer Review Training (EER PERT) team. She has also developed Systems Biology education modules to enhance computational thinking skills in high school students. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Workshop Result: Feedback from the 2021 Engineering Research Center Planning Grant WorkshopAbstractASEE has partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to host the EngineeringResearch Center (ERC) Planning Grant Workshops (PGW) since their inception in 2018. Theworkshop purposes are
remotely each time), so they are not disadvantaged orexperience setbacks due to internet connection issues.Another challenge with simulation-based projects had to do with time lags and difficulties withengaging students while computer simulations were running remotely. In some cases,simulations would take hours or days to run. In a normal REU summer, students would get tointeract with their teammates or advisors during these downtimes, or would work on other taskssuch as report writing, documentation, etc. With the students working more independently fromtheir own homes and feeling at times “zoomed out,” they were less likely to interact with eachother, and in group meetings reported more frustration with their projects, particularly midwaythrough