Paper ID #41718Reflections on a ”Math Disaster”: the Role of Instructor Confusion in theClassroomDr. Lorena S. Grundy, Tufts University Lorena Grundy is an ASEE eFellows postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University, where she works with Milo Koretsky to study chemical engineering education. She received her BSE from Princeton in 2017 and PhD from UC Berkeley in 2022, both in chemical engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Reflections on a “Math Disaster”: the Role of Instructor Confusion in the ClassroomAbstractWhen enacting active learning
Paper ID #42184Lessons Learned: Summer Book Club to Promote Reflection among EngineeringFaculty on Mental Health of StudentsLuis Delgado Jr., Penn State University Luis R. Delgado Jr. is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Pennsylvania State University. He has a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso and earned a master of science degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Public Policy from Penn State. Along with his role as a Ph.D., he is also a graduate research assistant at the Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn
Compact International Experiences: Two-year Reflections on Short-term Study-abroad Elective Engineering Courses Frank G. Jacobitz, Thomas F. Schubert Department of Engineering, University of San DiegoAbstractIn response to an effort by the home institution to internationalize the curriculum as well asstrong student desire for engineering international studies, compact international experience(CIE) courses were developed. The efficacy of delivering such engineering electives as study-abroad, short-term courses is described through the experiences gained by repeat offerings inJanuary 2013 of two distinct three-semester-unit courses in
2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference Critical Thinking for Open-Ended Engineering Problems Through Written Reflection: A Case Study Susan M. Reynolds, PE, RA, LEED AP Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of MinesAbstractEngineering classes are frequently assessed with closed-ended, well-defined problems with a“correct” answer. Open-ended and more complex problems complement this approach, and candevelop an ability to synthesize and contextualize information, and to develop critical thinkingskills. Assessing open-ended problems can prove challenging, as traditional grading methods forclosed-ended problems
Adding Reflection and Oral Communication to a Design Project – Work in ProgressReflection-in-action was encouraged in a junior-level design project by providing a competitor'sdesign to teams. Students then compared their designs to the competitor's design in an oralpresentation. The competitor's design had calculations errors and a different, less expensiveprocess than most of the students chose to use. Interesting questions developed as studentscompared their designs to that of the competitor. Methods, transferability, pitfalls, and futurestudies are discussed in the paper.IntroductionA colleague [placeholder for blind review] and I have taught similar junior-level courses atdifferent universities for a
and Outreach STEM Education graduate student at Tufts University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 1 Context Matters: Characterizing First-Year Engineering Students’ Shifting Perspectives when Reflecting on Different Sociotechnical and Justice TopicsIntroductionThis practice paper relates to the overall mission of ECSJ, specifically transformative learningtoward action. For well over a decade, there have been numerous critiques of the social/technicaldualism present in engineering education and calls to disrupt it [1]. Researchers have varyingmotivations
Paper ID #43035Building a Great Student Chapter: Reflections on Workshop Activities UsingEntrepreneurial MindsetProf. Matthew W Liberatore, University of Toledo Matthew W. Liberatore is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in chemical engineering. From 2005 to 2015, he served on the faculty at the Colorado School of Mines. In 2018, he served as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His research involves the
Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington.William Charles Sobolewski, University of California, Santa Cruz ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work in Progress: Scaffolding the Revision Process with Rubrics, Peer Review, and Reflection in a Technical Communication CourseIntroduction: Promoting Effective Revision of Rough DraftsTechnical communication is an essential skill for engineers. Unfortunately, many graduates ofengineering undergraduate programs report that they do not feel prepared or confident in theirtechnical communication abilities. In addition, although effective communication skills arerequired for success in all engineering
Homework Corrections: Improving Learning by Encouraging Students to Reflect on Their Own Mistakes Wenli Guo and Vazgen Shekoyan Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364 Abstract. In spite of using active-engagement techniques in our classes, big percentage of students can not answer straightforward questions of the type we have covered in class and assigned as homework. We believe that students lack one of the essential components of meaningful learning: self-reflection. How do we engage students in a meaningful self-reflection and measure its implications? We hypothesize that we can achieve that by having students reflect on their
Homework Corrections: Improving Learning by Encouraging Students to Reflect on Their Own Mistakes Wenli Guo and Vazgen Shekoyan Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364 Abstract. In spite of using active-engagement techniques in our classes, big percentage of students can not answer straightforward questions of the type we have covered in class and assigned as homework. We believe that students lack one of the essential components of meaningful learning: self-reflection. How do we engage students in a meaningful self-reflection and measure its implications? We hypothesize that we can achieve that by having students reflect on their
Paper ID #49499Intersection of Design and Society: Student and Faculty Reflection on anInterdisciplinary CourseDr. James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., Texas A&M University System RELLIS Campus Dr. James K. Nelson received a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from the University of Dayton in 1974. He received the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in civil engineering from the University of Houston. During his graduate study, Dr. Nelson specialized in structural engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in three states, a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom, and a fellow of the American
individual’s decision-making in the face of discrete moral or ethical quandaries. Yet,prior scholarship by Joseph Herkert [2] suggests there is a multi-layered set of ethical obligationsthat range for microethics––or individual decisions––to macroethics, which reflect theprofessional society’s values and ethical obligations. Macroethical dilemmas result in the“problem of many hands”, as described by van der Poel and Royakkers [3]. This brings to lightthe notion that individuals or even large organizations are not solely responsible for engineeringprocesses and uncertain outcomes. For it is clear that no individual or discrete organization hascomplete control and authority for the complex socio-technical innovation process from designto implementation
recommendations 10expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation. 9. REFERENCES[1] L. M. Nguyen, C. Poleacovschi, K. M. Faust, K. Padgett-Walsh, S. G. Feinstein and C. Rutherford, "Conceptualizing a Theory of Ethical Behavior in Engineering," in American Society For Engineering Education , Virtual, 2020.[2] L. M. Nguyen, C. Poleacovschi, K. Faust, K. Padgett-Walsh, S. Feinstein, C. Rutherford and M. LaPatin, "The Culture of Disengagement in Engineering Education Revealed through the COVID-19 Pandemic," in Engineering Project Organization Conference, Virtual
(Year 3), and repeat surveys and interviews during their eighth semester(Year 4) [26]. The survey included eight measures which reflect a wide variety ofcomplementary constructs and measurement domains, including both general and engineering-specific measures [26]. The semi-structured interviews are the focus of this paper and thus theinterview protocol will be discussed in more depth in the following section. Results from thisstudy have been previously published and include quantitative analysis of the initial and mid-point surveys, thematic qualitative analysis of the initial interviews, and qualitative analysis of asingle construct, such as moral disengagement [27-32]. An extensive analysis of our longitudinalquantitative data over the three
students’understanding of the role of ethics and societal impacts (ESI) in engineering. Socializationdescribes the process of learning the skills and values required for membership in a group. Thisresearch paper draws on data from three focus groups that were conducted with a total of 26undergraduate engineering students at three U.S. universities. The students were enrolled inengineering courses with ESI content, and the focus groups included discussion of the specificcourse that was being studied by the research team as a potential exemplar of ESI instruction andof students’ broader exposure to ESI inside and outside the classroom. In all three courses, thestudents were seniors and thus could reflect on their undergraduate experience. The focus groupswere
in this article.Dr. Marie Stettler Kleine’s research on humanitarian and integrated engineering programsinspired her reflection on how different forms of contextualization and the vocabulary used todescribe them signal different ways to best teach engineers. Her graduate training in science andtechnology studies and human-centered design prepared her to see that these forms ofcontextualization are much more nuanced than using particular language, but this varyinglanguage fundamentally changes the engineering pedagogy in practice. She continues tointerrogate why and how engineering educators learn from other disciplines to explicitlyprioritize contextualization.For Dr. Kari Zacharias, this project has been an opportunity to reflect on the
previous funded research has explored the effects of implicit bias on ethical decision making in the engineering classroom.Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in engineer- ing, teaching design and engineering economics, and assessment of student learning.Dr. Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut Daniel Burkey is the Associate
disconnect, we focused an in-depth analysis on discovering how students understood “teamwork” and their teamworkexperience in this course.RQ2: What are the major themes senior engineering students report about their teamworkexperiences in those capstone design projects? To understand what stood out to students in their teamwork processes, we iterativelyopen-coded their responses to the question of “What is the importance of working on a team forthis project?” The themes in student responses that reflected the importance of working on ateam included team coordination, simulation to real world, necessity, and the challenges (seeTable 3). Team coordination included communication, individual responsibility, efficiency,strengths and
Paper ID #29382Student Confidence and Metacognitive Reflection with Correlations toExam Performance in a FE Review Course in Chemical EngineeringSheima J. Khatib, Texas Tech University Sheima J. Khatib is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in the area of heterogeneous catalysis from the Au- tonomous University of Madrid. Apart from her interests in chemical engineering and finding sustainable paths for production of fuels and chemicals (for we she has received several grants including the NSF CAREER award), she is passionate
trades, but hiring experts whose expertise doenot necessarily reflect their capabilities in practical engineering. The masters at the universitiesare becoming more and more, faculty with the right mathematical, scientific, and neededcapabilities that do not include the mastery of the practical engineering needs as before.Consequently, the model seems to be working more effectively at the graduate level. However,the undergraduate, where students need more practical and hands on tools of the trade does notseem to be as effective as it used to be in early to the middle 20th centuryEngineering in US universitiesEngineers in university systems who were in touch with newest development and are master ofwhat they do in each field were to help the
employees. This scenario seems to reflect the behavior of coop ed participatingfinancial and education industry companies in hiring computing students for full-timeemployment – they respectively hired 6% and 10% more non-coop ed computing students thancoop ed ones. Moreover, the non-coop computing students might have been professionally moreexperienced than their coop ed counterparts and were therefore hired as more knowledgeable andskilled lower risk new employees.According to Huggins6 local market forces strongly influence student and employer participationin coop ed programs. Local markets can be complicated with the mix of non-profit organizationsas well as for-profit large, medium, and small entrepreneurial companies that might beexperiencing
Paper ID #38062Changes to a Circuits Lab Sequence to Encourage Reflection andIntegration of Experiences Across Related Courses to Explore NewSolution Spaces to an Engineering ProblemDr. Chandrasekhar Radhakrishnan, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignDr. Christopher D. Schmitz, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Christopher D. Schmitz received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois in 2002.Dr. Rebecca Marie Reck, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Rebecca M. Reck is a Teaching Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign. Her
interest includes blended learning, flipped classroom, gamification, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and the integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into engineering courses.Chad Rohrbacher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Comparing Weekly Reflection Surveys and a Midterm Survey: Insights on Formative Feedback in Graphical Communication EducationAbstractThe authors report on a pedagogical feedback strategy employed in a first-year engineeringgraphics course, which implemented a flipped classroom model for self-regulated learning. Classtime was reserved for activities and
Paper ID #35595Auto-ethnographic Reflections : Lessons from Leading a STEM Initiativefor Girls in School While We Ourselves Were in SchoolKayli Heather Battel, Tufts University Kayli Battel is currently a sophomore at Tufts University, majoring in Human Factors Engineering and minoring in Education and Art. One of SiS’s three original founders, she organized, led, marketed, and fundraised the program from 2018-2020, and continues to mentor SiS to this day. As a leader then President of Saguaro’s FRC Robotics team, Kayli led numerous STEM outreach events at local middle and elementary schools, and beyond. The success of
Paper ID #36358Student and Instructor Reflections on Integrating ShortMindfulness-Based Meditation Practices into a First-Year EngineeringDesign CourseDr. Hannah Nolte, The Pennsylvania State University Hannah Nolte has recently completed her doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University specializing in human factors and ergonomics. Her research investigates the applicability of mindfulness interventions as a stress-management technique for engineering design to improve design outcomes and student well-being. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics and Psychological Science from Gustavus
Paper ID #37936Scaffolding reflection across the design curriculum:Triangulating Student, Alumni, and Faculty Perspectives ofthe Role of Design within an Engineering Science ProgramRubaina Khan Rubaina Khan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests lie at the intersection of engineering design, learning communities and reflective practice. Prior, to pursuing graduate studies, Rubaina spent 10 years in autonomous marine vehicles research and, teaching robotics and design to engineering students in Singapore.Lisa Romkey (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Paper ID #37804Engagement in Practice: Reflections on Remote Community-Engaged Learning in the Context of a MultilateralInternational PartnershipPatrick Sours (Graduate Student)Howard L. Greene (Senior Project Manager) Howard Greene directs K-12 Education Outreach for the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, bringing a rich array of university research and teaching intersections to the K-12 community. Specifically, Howard’s work seeks to improve awareness of engineering careers and academic preparation in K-12 and to build the skills of career ambassadorship in OSU undergraduate students. Howard