] Conference advanced students in the class complained that there were in the lab too many simple circuits that focused on Ohm’s law and they wanted to do some actual design of electronics. A design project would be a valuable addition to the class in
diffeq F2016/S2017 14 99 328 calc 1 F2017 25 76 322 calc 2 S2018 19 65 251Survey analysis As part of a national project examining undergraduate math classes, Progress throughCalculus (PtC), students are asked to complete the survey. From 2015 through 2019, the MAAis conducting a study of the precalculus through calc 2 sequence in U.S. colleges and universities,sponsored by NSF. The survey takes about 20-30 minutes to finish. The analysis in this section providesdescriptive statistics of the survey data for the three groups of students (COMPASS, COMPASSeligible, and all other students) who completed the survey
hour in the classroom,engineering courses require an estimated 4 hours. Although the systems in place that run manyengineering colleges around the country work fairly well for the traditional engineering student –the teenager who shows up on campus ready to dedicate the next four years of their lives toschool, a chunk of undergraduates in commuter schools, such as SJSU, do not fit this profile.These students are juggling classes and a job or family or both. Most of our education system isnot built to cater to their needs, and its results are extremely wasteful. This paper presents initial results of a research project on failure rates in the college ofengineering at SJSU, where 40% of our students work more than 10 hours per week while
deciding what to cover in a course. Courses have been added to curricula to improveFE scores [4, 5, 6]. The technical content of several programs (typically general engineeringprograms at state universities) was selected from the beginning to cover the FE [7, 8, 9].This project arose in a new mechanical engineering program. My intention was to use the FEExam Specifications as a single simple source on what one might expect in a mechanicalengineering program. The FE also seemed like a straightforward, objective assessment. However,as I tried to develop learning objectives that comprehensively covered FE Mechanical content, Ifound it necessary to consult multiple sources beyond the Specifications. Furthermore, seeinghow competency is assessed on the
projects, catastrophic events can occur. Many people can lose their livesand companies can lose significant amounts of money. These events reinforce the importance ofcommunication within engineering.Along with technical skills, students in the engineering discipline are expected to have proficientcommunication skills when entering industry.4 According to a survey of industry representatives,working engineers say they spend over half of their day communicating either throughcollaborating with other employees or discussing opportunities with customers.5 Writing,speaking, and drawing are not simply used for passing information along within engineering;these communication techniques are also used to generate and analyze knowledge.6 For example,a team
when theyare recording individual responses and team responses. Before class, Mrs. J wrote rules for whatshe wanted her students to put in their notebooks. To display the notebook rules to her students,Mrs. J projects the rules with the document camera and has the students copy them exactly. Shefollows a similar structure to introduce other times students should write in their notebooks, suchas when they are copying notes about the engineering design process. When she introduces theengineering design process, she verbally tells the students to focus on the overall structure of thedesign process, and not worry about the details of copying it down.Notebook IntegrationWhen students respond to the prompts in their notebooks, Mrs. J usually has
. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Research in SEAD Education at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the
previouslyattended the FEMME program reported that grades in mathematics and science had improved,74% reported that the girls’ attitude(s) toward math and science class had become more positive,and 96% reported that she had expressed an interest in further STEM studies since attending theprevious summer.References[1] Sargent, J. F. (2014). The U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce: Recent, Current and Projected Employment, Wages and Unemployment. Congressional Research Service. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43061.pdf[2] Bureau of Labor Statistics (2017). https://www.bls.gov/ accessed August 29, 2017.[3] JerseyCan, (2017). “Preparing the Children of Today for the Jobs of Tomorrow, A Window into STEM Education in New Jersey”, The New
asynchronous interactions with the instructor and TAs and amongst the students. 4. Connects students’ ethics learning to engineering practice: Online learning allows students to take professionalism and ethics classes while on co-op or internship work terms at engineering firms. They are literally immersed in a professional practice and potentially experiencing ethical dilemmas on projects. Students have access to professional engineers to interview for assignments on the ethical dimensions of the Company’s work. 7. Incorporates innovative or creative educational methods: Online learning provides the environment to utilize a whole host of innovative educational method. As such, it requires creative teaching
PhD program at Texas State University and holds degrees from Texas State University (M.Ed.), and University of Texas at San Antonio (BA).Dr. Laura Rodr´ıguez Amaya, Dr. Laura Rodr´ıguez Amaya serves as research faculty at the LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Re- search. In addition she is the Co-I and Assistant Site Director of the NASA Future Aerospace-engineers and Mathematicians Academy project. Her research interests include applications of geospatial technolo- gies in issues of social justice, women in science with a focus on access and equity, and Latin America. She earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Geography in 2014 from Texas State University c American Society for
published, for example as course documentation.Most curricula are not formed from scratch, and all are complete within organizational and societalrestrictions. Americans have spent millions of dollars and occupied the time of hundreds ofscholars and scientists on curriculum development projects. Most of this money and energy hasspent to create new sets of course materials—textbooks, learning materials and apparatus of allkinds, teachers' guides, and tests—and to prepare teachers to use them.The primary stage of analysis of the curriculum involves understanding the current curriculum, itsappropriateness to broader development and education policy objectives. During this stage, it isessential to building an understanding of how well the curriculum is
Paper ID #27374Examining the Role of Parents in Promoting Computational Thinking in Chil-dren: A Case Study on one Homeschool Family (Fundamental)Ms. Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette Hoda is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in me- chanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests include designing informal setting for engineering learning, and promoting engineering thinking in
’ ethical formation. Theresearch question that we seek to address is, “In what different ways and to what extent doesparticipation in departmental engineering and science courses cultivate STEM students’ ethicalformation?” We define ethical formation in terms of several skills and dispositions, includingempathy [10], civic-mindedness [11], and ethical reasoning [12].This study is part of a larger project that strives to explore the effectiveness of integratingcommunity-engaged pedagogy and ethical reflection in the science and engineering curriculum[13]. During the 2018-2019 academic semesters, a subset of faculty from the courses surveyed inthis study participated in a faculty learning community focused on ethics instruction andcommunity-engaged
for the innovation Studio in the Engineering department.Luke G. Grzech, Wartburg College Luke is a Student in the Engineering Science Department at Wartburg College. He is getting his major in Engineering Science and Minors in Mathematics and Leadership. Research interests include recruitment into STEM and diversity in STEM.Prof. Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University Kurt Becker is the current director for the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering
heavily toSTEM students because they were co-organized by the STEM Librarian, ASEE@SU, and theECS-GSO, all graduate students were invited to attend.The first event, Speed Dating the Research Experts, took place on February 1, 2018. It wasdesigned to be the kick-off event for a series of follow-up research roundtables that were smallerand took a deeper dive into specific topics. The Research Speed Dating event, as the nameimplies, followed a speed dating-style format. In order to facilitate the rotation of a large groupover the span of 2 hours, participants were assigned to small groups of around 5 people, witheach group having 7 minutes to meet with an individual from the Libraries who specialized in aspecific topic: starting a research project
be interactive. Questions for the students are listedwith a “Q” symbol. Comments or further lines of questioning are marked with bullets. Theinstructor will lead the activity throughout, announcing each step and making sure that all groupshave completed the step before proceeding with the next step. Project, show on a large posterGEEOrganization 2018: Autonomous Vehicles Activity on Event Day 1(a) Example Slide for Interactive Lecture (b) Room Ready for Activity Figure 3: Autonomous Vehicles Activity Setup (a) Pink Group Performing Activity (b) Purple Group Performing Activity
classroom to 1-to 20 in the Small classroom).This would suggest that bringing more TA resources into a Large classroom (i.e., closer to the 1-to-20 ratio) and training TAs to proactively engage in the students’ learning process may be ahigh leverage intervention that significantly impacts closeness.The role of a Friend within the classroom is also important. Closeness to a Friend had thehighest pre-course scores and highest post-course scores almost double the closeness achieved bythe TA. This can take the form of discussion and study partners, project partners and even peermentors. Activity that leverages this peer-to-peer closeness within the classroom can have asubstantial impact on inclusion within the classroom 40. This suggests that peer
Figure 2 beintegrated and applied iteratively and continuously, guided by these 10 blocks. Figure 4. A morphology for systems engineeringSynthesis. To design is to synthesize, project, and propose what might be for a specific set ofcustomer and stakeholder requirements, often expressed in functional terms (Block 2). Synthesisis the creative process of putting known things and newly developed entities together into moreuseful and new combinations to produce emergent properties. Meeting a need in compliance withcustomer and stakeholder requirements is the objective of design synthesis.The primary elements enabling design synthesis are the design team (Block 3) supported bytraditional and computer-based tools for design
Century [5], they confirmed thatNSBE, along with other ethnic student organizations for African American students, providedmuch-needed cultural enclaves on PWI campuses.Both research teams then came together to compare findings. Shannon joined the project afterthe grounded theory data analysis was already underway. As a result, she was able to view thefindings of both investigations from a new perspective with more clarity than the authors whohad been engaged with data analysis for a long time. She leveraged this perspective to helpsynthesize the findings of both studies, pinpointing and articulating commonalities and distinctdifferences in the results. Shannon produced the majority of the writing of the text based ondiscussions between the two
, &Lee (2006) found that nearly all workplace problems are complex and ill-structured. Studentsoften only encounter complex ill-defined problems at the end of their four year engineeringprogram and enter the workforce without these critical skills requiring more on the job training.3How can we prepare students to solve these ill-defined complex problems that they willencounter as working engineers? The Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH)Engineering Research Center attempted to answer this question in a Biomedical Engineeringcontext. The VaNTH project designed a biotransport engineering curriculum to help studentsdevelop innovation and efficiency.4,5,6 Innovation was operationalized as the adaptive ability toperform well in
had completed theirundergraduate degrees. Of these former mentors, 25 served as Head Mentors as of spring 2015.These Head Mentors oversee the program at each school, develop design projects, organize anddirect the other mentors, suggest and implement new initiatives in the program, and carry outresearch on the outcomes and effectiveness of the program. The Head Mentors volunteer aparticularly large amount of time over their commitment of at least 3 semesters. An adaptationof Clary and Snyder’s Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) provides a quantitative indication ofmotivations indicating that volunteer Head Mentors are overwhelmingly motivated by the Valuesfunction, related to altruistic and humanitarian concern for others. Qualitative
of support practices they utilize,(b) how such practices influence their achievement, persistence and transfer status to four yearcolleges and universities, and (c) how in turn their propensity for innovation and creativeproblem solving affects such choices and persistence. This paper presents on the first and secondyear of a three-stage research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Thevalue of the study’s findings depends largely on an exploratory research design, which analyzesthe pedagogical practices—practices designed to foster successful transfer from communitycollege to four-year colleges and universities and how students’ innovative capability influencessuch transfer capacity. The goals of this research are: (1
Paper ID #17187Cross-Validation of a Global Citizenship Scale: Constructs for EvaluatingUndergraduate Engineering PerspectivesRachel Roberts, University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Rachel completed her Bachelor’s degrees at the University of Wyoming in International Studies and Span- ish, spending a semester in Guatemala interviewing business owners and local residents in Antigua as part of a project to understand conflicts over the growing ecotourism industry. She also completed a Masters with the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington, collaborating on
curriculum development, including ITEEA’s secondary education programEducation byDesign: STL # 9: Students will develop an understanding of engineering design. STL # 10: Students will develop an understanding of the role of troubleshooting, research and development, invention and innovation, and experimentation in problem solving. STL # 11: Students will develop the abilities to apply the design process. 13Engineering design is a process that “demands critical thinking, the application of technicalknowledge, [and] creativity” ITEEA and Technology for All Americans Project, 13.One of the stated goals of STEM education is to develop 21st Century Skills 14. To ouradvantage, design represents a powerful context for supporting the
ofimportant program learning outcomes, while over 67% identify internships and community-based projects as useful in “evaluating the graduates’ potential for success” [2, p. 18], and half ofthe employers target them as the place where institutions should devote the most resources forassessment [2]. Experiential learning environments provide places where “knowledge is created throughthe transformation of experience” [14, p. 41], while enhancing their learning experience [13]. Itis an authentic assessment environment that more closely simulates later types of learningsituations, and is “one of the truest forms of active learning” [16, p. 80] where students candemonstrate their knowledge and skills, and receive valuable feedback from the
standardized performance on the tests. Students alsoEnabled active John Sciences, of the TEAL project on tests, multiple reported an appreciation for thelearning affect 2009 students' cognitive and choice and learning experience and that theirundergraduate affective outcomes. Students' open ended understanding was significantlystudents' conceptual understanding items impacted by the innovative approachunderstanding of
Dr. Kathleen Quardokus Fisher is a post doctoral scholar at Oregon State University. She is currently participating in a project that supports the use of evidence-based instructional practices in undergraduate STEM courses through developing communities of practice. Her research interests focus on understanding how organizational change occurs in higher education with respect to teaching and learning in STEM courses.Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a