researching SMART assessment, a modified mastery learning pedagogy for problem based courses. He created and co-teaches a multi-year integrated system design (ISD) project for mechanical engineering students. He is a mentor to mechanical engineering graduate teaching fellows and actively champions the adoption and use of teaching technologies. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com The Differing Impact of a New Assessment Framework on Student Success – The Effect of Socioeconomic FactorsAbstractIn 2016, Michigan State University developed a new model of classroom education andassessment in their Mechanics of
upon the authors’ anecdotal experience, thisclaim is especially true for the skill of computer programming. Moreover, computing is an area in which studentstend to exhibit more significant heterogeneity as compared to, e.g., background with thermodynamics.computing; in practice, all students have used one (or some combination) of C++, MATLAB, andPython. In a typical semester, there is a large amount of heterogeneity with regard to scientificcomputing background, ranging from less than one semester of prior experience to greater thanfive years of prior experience.The course has six problem sets and a final project (written report and presentation) on a topic ofthe student’s choosing. The (heavily scaffolded) problem sets guide students to
focuses on developingand supporting an inclusive academic environment for faculty and students across a spectrum ofidentities. Her primary research projects have included qualitative studies on the experiences ofnon-majority members of academia (students and faculty).Author 3 (she/her/hers) is a faculty member at University of Colorado Boulder. She has limitedbackground in dis/ability studies or UDL. In her 25-year teaching career she has had numerousstudents in undergraduate and graduate courses who have university-assigned accommodations.While her primary experience in engineering education research has focused on undergraduatestudents and quantitative studies, she also has experience conducting qualitative studies that haveincluded
grateful to the National Science Foundation (NSF S-STEM Award DUE-1833767), theHCC Office of Academic Affairs, our Hostos STEM students, and our HEAT Program AssistantLuis Tejeda Ortiz for his significance contribution to HEAT.References1. National Research Council and National Academy of Engineering. (2012). Community colleges in the evolving stem education landscape: summary of a summit. Washington DC: The National Academies Press.2. U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Population Projection, released 2009, Last Revised: March 19, 2018, at https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/2009/demo/us-pop-proj-2000- 2050.html, accessed 23 January 2022.3. Rodríguez Y, Angulo N, Nieto-Wire C, and Varelas A. Engineering student perceptions of
projects (decided at varying levels), alumni and donor support(foundation and donor driven), as well as contracts and grants. Our contracts and grant worktypically requires external evaluations. While not required for the other funding sources, externalevaluations provide data, an external review/analysis, and credibility for Our Center to keydecision makers.Further, as educators and researchers we want to know varying levels of impact and areas of need,either from campus or areas where Our Center can improve its work. Utilizing an externalevaluator provides new perspectives on the work of Our Center. The evaluators often see thingsthat we miss as we are too entrenched in the work. There are also times when we are curious orconcerned about
mentoring quality [12–13], 2) mismatch in seniority and department position may strainpotential mentoring relationships [21], 3) power dynamics and administrative responsibilities canlead to favoritism and transparency issues, impacting mentoring relationships [22], and 4)mentoring, as a skill, in general, requires training [1]. The sum of this work makes it clear thatsenior faculty mentors need certain attributes to be successful with mentoring, as well asguidelines, milestones, metrics, and incentives to know if they are meeting the mentoring needsof their mentees [17].The current work is part of the Kern Family Foundation-funded Mentorship 360 project atArizona State University, which aims to create research, frameworks, and resources to
Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO). curriculum and instructional supports for inclusive knowledge construction by engineering learners. Major projects emphasize community-based engineering curricula and professional development, engineering discourse studies, design notebooking, undergraduate learning assistants, and responsive teaching for engineering. Kristen is an associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. She teaches courses in design, mechanics, electronics, and engineering education. Wendell completed her PhD in science education at Tufts, her MS in aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and her BS in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton. © American Society
to Students Become Coaches computing; introduce the participants to engineering and more specifically incorporate: engineering documentation and design projects, team building and team competition, [16] use of computer software such as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, problem solving skills, research activities; help the students achieve an attitude of “I can be a successful engineering student;” address issues relevant to freshman students
M.S. in Management of Technology from Murray State University, and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Webster is a certified GD&T-Technologist, SOLIDWORKS Expert, and Six Sigma Green Belt. For his teaching and mentoring of students he has been awarded the 2021 ASEE ET National Teaching Award, 2021 Purdue Teaching for Tomorrow Fellowship, 2021 Purdue Teaching Academy Pandemic Teaching Award, 2019 ASEE EDGD Rising Educator Award, and 2019 SME Distinguished Faculty Advisor Award. Dr Webster’s research interests include ET outreach (e.g., recruitment and retention) and design education with focus areas in CAD, instructional techniques (e.g., project-based learning
research-based teaching and learning practices and the ILCmembers were engineering faculty and instructors.Assessment Methods One goal of this project is to provide faculty the support they need to successfullyimplement inclusive strategies in their engineering classrooms. Faculty success in creatinginclusive classrooms is directly linked to student perspectives and outcomes, and thus we arecollecting data from students in participating classrooms. The student-centered assessment planis a mixed-method approach that includes survey response data asking students about theirrecognition of inclusive strategies, examination of the department and university climate, and asense of community within the classroom. There is also an option for
visibility of diverse faculty, were needed to bothincrease the number of applicants from diversity groups and to increase the likelihood thatstudents from the diversity groups would choose to enroll in our program when offeredadmission.This phase of our effort was supported by a small seed grant from the institution which providedresources to accomplish two primary goals: to add a diversity webpage to the larger departmentalwebsite to highlight our commitment to diversity and inclusive practices and to develop awebsite for Graduates for Underrepresented Minorities (GUM), a student organization thatsupports students from diversity groups. Both projects were completed and launched in early2021 prior to our graduate recruitment events. In addition, we
that doesn't know social justice issues, why are you an engineer? You're supposed to be the building blocks of society, but if you don't intake what society wants or it needs, then your use is really minimal.This comment demonstrates that, to Andre, motivation to engage in social justice issues can bethe same motivation behind engaging in engineering. This connection highlights the ways thatAndre’s views of engineering were entwined with a motivation to engage in social justice.Andre’s weekly essays and final project provide additional insights into Andre’s perceptions ofthe ways engineering relates to social justice. In one weekly essay, Andre wrote: As engineering is a tool which can be used to meet certain goals, we can
are contextualized by the overall health and functionality of the department and relate to qualities of the department that all members of the department can speak to (e.g., transparency; quality of mentoring). 2. Departmental climate data is the basis for self-reflection, not a research project. Data analysis in this context is fundamentally different in two ways. First, the people interpreting the data produced the data and thus have the necessary capacity to clarify and expand the meaning of the data that are available. Second, while research requires the interpreter to observe and analyze the data, climate data requires the interpreter to personally respond and, in many cases, consider
Paper ID #37051Inspiring Academic Engagement and Motivation of MinorityCollege Students through Transformative Success Stories onSocial Media (Work-in-Progress)Victor Manuel Garcia (Research Associate) Victor Garcia holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Victor is currently a research civil engineer at the US Army – Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS. He leads research projects sponsored by the US Department of Defense that focus on improving the design and construction practices for military transportation installations. Victor has been also
a sense of belonging are more important predictors ofwithdrawal from SCE than academic reasons. This is in line with another study [6] that foundfemale students tend to leave engineering majors with GPAs higher than those of the malestudents in the same programs.Experimental Methods / Project ApproachStudents in FA begin their college experience in the Summer II term, a condensed 7-week term,from early July to late August. The students take a Learning Strategies Seminar and Introductionto Programming. Learning Strategies Seminar is a 0-credit metacognition course focused onstudy habits and techniques, resilience, and a growth mindset. This course is taught by theAcademic Coach so that students can begin forming a relationship with their
Paper ID #37034EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF ONLINE LECTUREVIEWING BEHAVIOR ON STUDENT PERFORMANCEIN A FLIPPED CLASSROOM BLENDED COURSESudeshna Pal Dr. Sudeshna Pal is an Associate Lecturer in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where she teaches courses in the areas of system dynamics, controls, and biomedical engineering. Her current research focus is engineering education, including blended learning, project-based learning, and digital and design education. She co-directs the “Biodesign Program in Rehabilitation Engineering” program for undergraduate
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examining students who graduated or were still active in theEngineering Technology program, 24 of 90 students failed the PSVT:R posttest (27%) and 62 of90 failed the MCT posttest (69%). Although we can assume spatial visualization plays a key rolein the success of students, data in this study indicate overall success includes other factors.Engineering Technology graduates enter a wide range of fields that include robotics systemsintegration, plastics technology, and technical sales. Many students who struggle with spatialvisualization ability may flourish in other areas such as project management or programmablelogic control.The data regarding outcomes in other courses within the Engineering Technology curriculumshowed mixed results. Figures 1-7
earlier findings?,” Educ. Res. Rev., vol. 10, pp. 133–149, Dec. 2013, doi: 10.1016/j.edurev.2013.02.002.[3] J. M. Cámara-Zapata and D. Morales, “Cooperative learning, student characteristics, and persistence: an experimental study in an engineering physics course,” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 565–577, Jul. 2020, doi: 10.1080/03043797.2019.1569593.[4] D. W. Johnson, R. T. Johnson, and K. A. Smith, Cooperative learning: increasing college faculty instructional productivity. Washington, DC: School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University, 1991.[5] R. S. Moog, J. N. Spencer, and A. R. Straumanis, “Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning: POGIL and the POGIL Project,” Metrop. Univ., vol
work.Going to college completely severed these two portions of my identity. I decided to attend theUniversity of San Diego, a wealthy, private, Catholic institution which I thought would besomewhat similar to my high school. However, leaving the islands and going to a predominantlyWhite institution in California had a culture shock that separated my racial and academicidentities. The courses, especially those in engineering, were almost entirely filled with whitestudents that had more engineering experience in their pasts through camps and programs. Ialways felt out of place being picked last for group projects, sometimes used as the tokenminority by some professors, and feeling that my cultural identity was useless in the engineeringdiscipline
project focuses on increasing coordination with industry and career-readiness of engineering students with ASD. Quality preparation during the job search processcontributes to the success of students with ASD to find meaningful employment. In the future,EASE aims to promote the engineering community and local engineering companies byincreasing persistence and employment statistics for students with ASD.References[1] R.E.A. Nevill, and S.W. White, “College students’ openness toward autism spectrum disorders: improving peer acceptance,” Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, vol. 41, pp. 1619-1628, 2011.[2] M. Pilotte and D. Bairaktarova, “Autism spectrum disorder and engineering education – needs and considerations,” 2016 IEEE
,listening and taking notes”[2]. Active learning can also be defined as any instructional method thatengages students in the learning process[3]. In short, active learning requires students to domeaningful learning activities and think about what they are doing[4]. In addition, active learningpedagogical activities in both Traditional Classrooms and Active Learning Classrooms influencestudents’ satisfaction with their learning processes positively[5]. An investigation of the long-termeffects of active learning methods on student retention in an introductory engineering statisticsclass was carried out in two classes of students: one was with traditional lecture-based learning,and the other class was with group projects and cooperative learning-based
applicable to a wide variety of research thrusts, from physical-social infrastructure resilience to STEM education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference Is playing games all you need? A survey of student experiences with virtual learning environments in undergraduate courses. J.D. O’Brian, III, Sara C. Vick, Nazanin Tajik Mississippi State University, Department of Industrial and Systems EngineeringAbstractEngineering students are intended to catalyze what is known as theoretical science into practicalcontributions. Typically, this skill is learned through a group project
enter the performance. The attendance capture issuewas reported to and addressed by Zoom Video Communications, Inc. as an issue not previouslyconsidered by Zoom.ObservationsWhile other studies have reported the success of the Interactive Theatre technique in improvingstudents’ perceptions about their ability to function effectively on diverse teams and contribute toimproving the inclusive and welcoming culture of the team, this paper has described the “nutsand bolts” of its implementation. Observations of project personnel and interested outsiders(members of the institution’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) who attended the eventagree that the students, in general, appear to be affected by and even empowered by participatingin this
Schluterman, University of Arkansas Dr. Heath Schluterman is a Teaching Associate Professor and the Associate Director of Academics for the First-Year Engineering Program at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Schluterman completed his B.S. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at the University ofMrs. Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas Leslie Massey is an instructor in the First-Year Engineering Program at the University of Arkansas. She received her BS in Biological Engineering and MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Arkansas. She previously served as a project manaGretchen Scroggin 14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference: University of Tennessee in Knoxville
, T., Dillon, H., Lulay, K., Eifler, K., and Hensler, Z. (2017). Design and implementation of an aspirational ethics laboratory course. Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education, Paper ID# 17634, Columbus, OH. 6. Hotchkiss, R.H. (2001). Flow over a “killer” weir design project. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 127(12): 1022-1027.7. Chanson, H. (2004). Enhancing students’ motivation in the undergraduate teaching of hydraulic engineering: role of field works. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 130(4): 259-268.8. Brown, S., Easley, A., Montfort, D., Adam, J., Van Wie, B., Olusola, A., Poor, C., Tobin, C., Flatt, A
Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF) teaching Electronics I, II, and CMOS VLSI courses.Chris S Ferekides (Professor) Chris S. Ferekides received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida. He has been a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department since 1992. He is currently service as the department chair, and is the principal investigator of a NSF Funded RED Project that addresses the professional formation of electrical engineering students. His research is in the areas of electronic materials with a focus on photovoltaics. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
was not strong support for voice over Power Point lectures in either class, as indicated bythe average and medians for the question in both courses. However, the responses suggestthere is somewhat stronger support to continue this model of flipped classrooms amongstudents in the initial course than from students in the senior course. It is possible students inthe senior course experienced greater stress since they were learning about vapor powersystems which involve solving time-consuming problems and working on individual thermaldesign projects when the survey was administered.The final question “Lastly, I would like your opinion about the course format (you don’t need tolike thermodynamics). What worked for you, what didn’t, what might I
mechanical engineering. As an undergraduate researcher, she worked with the University of Florida to determine ambiguity and problem types in engineering textbook problems.Elizabeth Anne Louise Bates Elizabeth is a senior mechanical engineering student at Michigan Technological University. In the summer of 2021 she worked as an undergraduate researcher categorizing problem types as part of a project to identify the level of ambiguity present in engineering text book problems.Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome (Instructional Assistant Professor) Dr. Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome earned her bachelor's and master's of science degrees and Ph.D. in civil engineering from UF. During her studies, she became passionate about issues of
emergency remote teaching and online learning.” 7 https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/3/the-difference-between-emergency-remote- teaching-and-online-learning (accessed March. 27, 2020). [11] A. A. Igolkina and G. Meshcheryakov, “Semopy: a python package for structural equa- tion modeling,” Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 952–963, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.1080/10705511.2019.1704289. [12] M. Kuhfeld, J. Soland, B. Tarasawa, A. Johnson, E. Ruzek, and J. Liu, “Projecting the potential impact of covid-19 school closures on