section, student-customized rockets outperformedthe unmodified baseline vehicle.At the class’s conclusion, 79 students (out of 107 enrolled) completed a computerizedanonymous indirect survey to self-assess their attitudes about the course specifically andengineering in general as a result of the rocket project. Results were lackluster compared toexpectations based on similar s novel classroom lesson pedagogical studies previouslyconducted. Only 54.4% of students reported increased interest in the class over the semester.62.0% reported improved understanding of the rocket design process. 57.0% reported being ableto see interconnections between science, math, engineering, and technology as a result of thecourse. Despite these disappointing results
century. (National Academies Press, 2005).11. Arum, R. & Roksa, J. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. (University of Chicago Press, 2011).12. Crabbe, N. Study: College students fail to think critically. The Chalkboard. (2011). at .13. Jaschik, S. “Academically Adrift” | Inside Higher Ed. High. Ed. (2011). at .14. Leef, G. No Work, All Play, Equals a Job? – Room for Debate. New York. (2011). at .15. Paul, R. The State of Critical Thinking Today. (2004). at .16. Mason, M. Critical thinking and learning. Educ. Philos. Theory 39, 339–349 (2007).17. Ennis, R. H. A taxonomy of critical thinking dispositions and abilities. (1987). at 18. French, J. N. & Rhoder, C. Teaching Thinking Skills: Theory
innovative STEM educationprograms designed in part to increase student attitudes toward STEM subjects and careers. Thispaper describes how a team of researchers at The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation atNorth Carolina State University developed the Upper Elementary School and Middle/HighSchool Student Attitudes toward STEM (S-STEM) Surveys to measure those attitudes. Thesurveys each consist of four, validated constructs which use Likert-scale items to measurestudent attitudes toward science, mathematics, engineering and technology, 21st century skills.The surveys also contain a comprehensive section measuring student interest in STEM careers.The surveys have been administered to over 10,000 fourth through twelfth grade students inNorth
inattentive responders. The finalanalytical sample included 834 students. Participant gender identity, race/ethnicity, nationality,sexual identity, and disability status are reported in Table 1. Participants self-identified theirdemographics by selecting from categorical response options including write-in text options. Thesample is predominantly men (65%), and white (66%), which reflects the general populationcharacteristics among contemporary U. S. engineering undergraduates. Most participantsidentified as heterosexual/straight (88%) with 9% identifying as asexual, bisexual, gay, lesbian,pansexual, queer, or another sexual identity. Students reported a range of disabilities, withpsychological conditions predominating at 13% of the sample.Table 1
used to power underwater vehicles for the military: due to theand T-s diagrams. The resulting power output matrix is two- low noise and low vibration of the engine, underwater dimensional: one dimension is an array of Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) values from 100 rpm to 1,000 rpm; the military vehicles will decrease their probability of being second dimension is an array of compression ratios. This detected by the enemy [4]. The reason for low noise is power output matrix is created by utilizing the Parametric because there is no combustion process inside the engine to tables in EES. The Nasa Ideal Gas Library within the EES exert gas pressure
of Arkansas. She previously served as project manager at the Arkansas Water Resources Center, but returned to teaching full time in 2013. She teaches Introduction to Engineering I and II and and is the coordinator for the First-Year Honors Innovation Experience.Carol S Gattis (Associate Dean Emeritus) Dr. Carol Gattis is the Associate Dean Emeritus of the Honors College and Adjunct Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering. She has 30+ years of successful educational program design, development, and research relative to engineering and honors student recruitment, retention, diversity, international education, and course development. She has served as PI/co PI on four NSF S-STEM grants.Jennie Popp Jennie Popp
fatigue butprimarily because the study team felt safe assuming that most graduate students have access to acamera through their smartphone or a digital camera and therefore also have experience takingphotographs. In lieu of a formal training, participants will be provided information on the goalsof the study, data collection process, goals of photovoice research, and ethical considerations forpartaking in a photovoice study via the study informed consent form, a photovoice fact sheet,and virtual instructions.Theoretical Frameworks Used in the StudyThree theoretical frameworks are leveraged in this work. The first is Ecological Systems Theory(EST). This framework helps to situates individuals within the context of their localenvironment(s), global
education over the past several years.Active learning methods have proven to be an effective way to increase engineering self-efficacy (Carini RM,2006), academic performance(Freeman,2014), feelings of responsibility to complete futuretasks(Daniel,2016), and recently retention in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)(Elgin,2016).Even authors in the cognitive science discipline suggest that classrooms with an active learning approachcan increase student motivation, knowledge retention, and content transferability (Michael, 2006; Norman andSchmidt, 1992; Vosniadou, Loannides, Dimitrakopoulous, & Papademetriou, 2001). The core elements of activelearning are student‟s activity and engagement in the learning
rated “Very Important.”High School Career Interest Assessments (59%), High School Guidance Counselor (56%),Friends (51%), High School Teachers (49%), and Flexibility of Work Schedule (45%) rated the Page 23.587.14highest in the Not Important Category. Using the variance measure, there was very littleagreement on importance levels in the following five influence categories: Opportunity toParticipate in Student Organizations (0.12%), Flexibility of Work Schedule (0.18%), Probabilityof Graduating with Honors in Major (0.46%), Family Member(s) (0.52%), and High SchoolTeacher(s) (0.55%).Analytical Results: Underrepresented
these courses are core required ME courses (at the UW) that are Page 22.1112.3offered in typical ME curriculum at other universities. This integration into existing core MEcurriculum will facilitate the potential adoption of the proposed nanodevice modules at otheruniversities, and thereby, benefit the ongoing efforts to develop nanotechnology curriculum forundergraduate education. Course and Specific Nanodevice(s) Outcomes (Analysis/Fabrication/Design) Lead Faculty in Proposed Modules and Novel Concepts Course: ME 333
sequence. From this site, they were easily able toaccess the Course WebBoard®, Sample Project WebBoard®, and their own ProjectWebBoard®s. Additionally, this Web Site became the home for archived Course and Project1We used the web discussion board developed by WebBoard, Duke Engineering and O’Riellly Assoc., Inc., 1995, Page 6.1076.7Email: Software@oreilly.com2 http://swhite.me.washington.edu/~dig/me495/“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Education”WebBoard®s, as well as archived RFP's. Both students and instructional staff were
subjectmatter of the course, and reciprocity with the community partner. The approach of S-L, with itsroots in experiential learning, is consistent with the theories and empirical research of a numberof leading educators and developmental psychologists, as documented by Jacoby (Jacoby, 1996).The approach is also consistent with the relatively recent change in paradigm in education from afocus on teaching to a focus on learning (Bradenberger, 1998).More recently, Astin’s group reported that its 2007-2008 survey of over 12,000 full time facultymembers at 379 institutions that the percentage of faculty who found it “very important” or“essential” to encourage commitment to community service rose 19 percent compared to 2004-05 (55.5 % vs. 36.4 %), the
“effectivelydisrupt the systematic categorization of alternative neurological and cognitiveembodiment(s)”and “offers an emancipatory lens for representing and embodying neurologicaldifferences beyond traditional special education’s deficit-based discourses and practices.”C. INCLUDE ProjectThe INCLUDE project funded by the Revolutionizing Engineering Departments program of theNational Science Foundation has been established to transform department-wide practices andcreate an inclusive learning environment that empowers the diversity of learners present ininstitutions of higher education. This project aims to develop and refine a range of interventionstargeted towards multiple aspects of academic life, from recruitment to career development. TheINCLUDE team
Asian women in 2013, whereas approximately8% were Asian men [19]. Moreover, a recent report by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsindicated that the number of Asian women professionals were four times fewer than the numberof Asian men in the construction industry in 2022 [20]. Although the two industries are slightlydifferent, these statistics imply that Asian women's experiences cannot be understood simply asinheriting Asian’s privileges. Asian women face a number of challenges when completing their engineering programs.There are few female leaders in civil engineering [21] and even fewer Asian women leaders.Since there are so few Asian women leaders in civil engineering, it is difficult for prospectivecivil engineering students and
Council for Research on Women, 11 Hanover Square,20th Floor, New York, NY 10005.[3] Hill, C., Corbett, C., & St Rose, A. (2010). Why so few? Women in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics. American Association of University Women. 1111 SixteenthStreet NW, Washington, DC 20036.[4] Fouad, N. A., Hackett, G., Smith, P. L., Kantamneni, N., Fitzpatrick, M., Haag, S., &Spencer, D. (2010). Barriers and supports for continuing in mathematics and science: Gender andeducational level differences. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 77(3), 361-373.[5] Sullivan, A., & Bers, M. U. (2013). Gender differences in kindergarteners’ robotics andprogramming achievement. International journal of technology and design education, 23,691-702.[6
conceptualresearch, Strobel et al. [30] analyzed 1058 engineering education literature related to authenticity througha systematic literature review and proposed a four dimensions concept framework based on Brab et al.’s 3research work [31], which includes context authenticity, task authenticity, impact authenticity, as well aspersonal and value authenticity.Authentic learning has a long history in engineering fields like apprenticeship [28], in which the learnerscould finish some real-world tasks and solve ill-defined problems. The features of work-place engineeringproblems, such as ill-structured, complex, conflicting goals, multiple solution methods, beyond engineeringsuccess standards or constraints
accountability for watching the videos.In addition to watching the videos and completing the notetaker, students would also write-up thetwo or three homework problems from the previous lesson that were due at the start of class. Theproblems were typically graded by students in class.In-class activitiesIn general, the in-class activities were similar for all three instructors. The class started with abrief quiz over the material covered in the videos. For Instructors 1 and 3, the quiz was oftenstarted individually, but after about 5 minutes, students were allowed to work with the peoplearound them. Instructor 2’s quiz was delivered using the polling software and the questions wereall multiple choice.Following the quiz the instructors presented a very
courses did find that the quality of their interactionswith students and the logistics of running the course were also dramatically improved. Forexample, the synchronous meeting time made it easier for instructors to remind students of rolesand provide tips and suggestions in real time for how specific teams could enact their roles. Basedon our experience as instructors and the evidence from the data analytics, it is reasonable to claimthat the combination of synchronous collaborative learning with structured roles is a best practiceto recommend to other instructors.References [1] S. Freeman, S. Eddy, M. McDonough, M. Smith, N. Okoroafor, H. Jordt, and M. Wenderoth, “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and
in manufacturing and service systems, stochastic processes, and engineering education. Her recent research interests focus on enhancing creativity in engineering classrooms.Danielle S. Dickson Danielle Dickson received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016 with a dissertation examining the memory system’s representation of numerical information, using behavioral and electro-physiological (EEG, brainwaves) measures. She extended this work into comparisons of children and adults’ arithmetic processing as a postdoctoral scholar at The University of Texas San Antonio. Her most recent research examines creative thinking processes as an area of postdoctoral research at The Pennsylvania
identity aspiration were underlying processes driving theconditional effect. Following (Preacher and Hayes 2004)’s recommendations, we tested ourmodel using non-parametric percentile bootstrapping to create confidence intervals for eacheffect with the lavaan package (Rosseel 2012). As shown in Figure 1, the result revealed that entrepreneurial identity aspiration wasdriving the observed conditional effect of the video intervention on entrepreneurial intention.Consistent with the results from OLS regression, participants in the relatable role modelcondition have higher entrepreneurial identity aspirations than those in the unrelatable role modelcondition with a point estimate of 0.11 and the 95% confidence interval of (0.01, 0.21
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and qualitative data analysis. Student GPA and industry careerwould be another avenue to explore and encourage educators in providing enriching experience.7. REFERENCES[1] Yoder, B. B. L., and Ph, D., 2011, “‘Engineering by the Numbers,’” pp. 11–47. [2].[2] Ra, S., Shrestha, U., Khatiwada, S., Yoon, S. W., and Kwon, K., 2019, “The Rise of Technology and Impact on Skills,” Int. J. Train. Res., 17(sup1), pp. 26–40.[3] Yoder, B. B. L., and Ph, D., 2017, “E Ngineering by the N Umbers,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings.[4] Desai, N., and Stefanek, G., 2017, “A Literature Review of the Different Approaches That Have Been Implemented to Increase Retention in Engineering Programs across the United
recruitment and retention ofstudents to the Engineering Technology (ET) programs within the College of EngineeringTechnology (CET) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). This project is funded by aNational Science Foundation Scholarships in Science Technology & Math (S-STEM; NSFAward No. 1930313) awarded in 2020. The SD-COMETS program is a comprehensive programaimed at increasing enrollment of economically disadvantaged, academically talented students inET academic programs at RIT, with targeted recruitment of underrepresented groups. The projectis designed to increase first and second year persistence, known to be the critical years for degreecompletion. Using a research based approach, factors in the engineering education
fourprimary literature databases: ERIC, Engineering Village, Scopus, and conference proceedings ofthe American Society for Engineering Education using the following keywords: “asset-based”and “engineering”. Search results were then augmented using Google Scholar and twosystematic reviews related to asset-based frameworks in STEM (FoK [7] and CCW [9]),respectively. Those articles that met any one of the following criteria were included in thisreview: 1. The study includes evidence of assets for one or more certain student population(s) or, 2. The study includes asset-based practices for teaching and learning engineering or engineering design in any educational setting or, 3. The study includes conceptual ideas or general suggestions
]. 5Although internships provide numerous benefits to the students, some students might gain less valuefrom their internships compare to others. Diambra et al.’s [33] study show that new information, newpeople, new environment, and new tasks may cause stress to the interns. Woo et al. [34] classified all theinterns’ tensions into three categories a) inexperienced interns versus experienced employees b)enjoyment of the current position but not finding the position appealing for a future permanent job c) toomuch guidance or observations during the internship. Karji et al. [11] study show that the most challengingparts of an internship for construction management students were a) communication with otheremployees b) language barrier for international
instruction to remotely teach engineering concepts to diverse,underserved communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.IntroductionBiomaterials are substances that can treat, augment or replace any tissue, organ or function of thebody [1]. At the inception of the modern biomaterials field in the 1940’s, this mostly includedbioinert medical devices and prostheses for cardiovascular and orthopaedic applications [2].Since this time, biomaterials have evolved with the field of tissue engineering, which aims todevelop functional substitutes for damaged tissues [3]. Today, scientists, engineers, andclinicians collaborate to develop a wide range of novel biomaterials that can diagnose and treatnumerous diseases in previously unimaginable ways [4
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