, and Learning. Student responses were most often coded as InterpersonalRelationships (67% of responses) as their greatest success and Acclimating (38%) as theirbiggest challenge (Figure 1).Most student successes coded as Relationships reflected building community with their peers asa success. For example, one student commented ‘I consider my greatest success for my first year, which was this year, was all of the different people I have met, and the connections made whether it’s been the classmates in my [ASMT] classes or the friends I made from joining Alpha Gamma Rho. Coming here from California
, problem solving, andconflict resolution skills, among others. Unfortunately, research indicates that group dynamics inSTEM education project groups can suffer due to both gender and racial stereotyping and bias.Multiple studies indicate that women and students of color experience higher rates of beingsilenced and marginalized as well as receiving tasks deemed less valuable or earning no creditfrom their peers for their work [2],[3],[5]. This paper evaluates first year civil engineeringstudents’ responses to a series of reflective questions based on a group dynamics interventionpresented halfway through their first semester. The goal of this reflective assignment was toidentify what differences, if any, there could be in students’ ability to
artifacts out of wood, cardboard, plastics, and other miscellaneous materials. Inaddition to the instructor, each class is allocated Make Space Assistants, typically undergraduatestudents who have excelled in the course. These peer mentors interact with the students, assistingwith CAD designs, design project work, and Make Space projects.The core of EDSGN 100 is the application of engineering design methods through team-baseddesign projects. For the first half of the semester, instructors are provided flexibility in how theyintroduce an engineering design process, whether through a single half-semester project or aseries of “mini” design projects. These design projects should present some ambiguity in theproblem space, requiring that the students
, theimplementation of the “standards for common everyday items” project, and having a segment foreach project where student must utilize technical standards to successfully complete the project,students are able to hone critical skills necessary to being successful in the profession. Thedesign projects build the student’s knowledge and understanding of how to locate and discernrelevant technical information from within the standard and apply it to the design problem athand. They utilize the equations, charts, and graphs to ensure that each project is designed to theproper specification. In addition, students hone their skills on using proper technicalterminology, technical writing skills, as well as search and navigation strategies on variousstandards
academic support on both campuses was also identifiedas a way to better provide access to academic resources. Drop-in tutoring with graduateassistants as well as peer tutors was organized on both campuses. The attendance at these drop-insessions is tracked for scheduling and assessment purposes.Through review of first year seminars, relevant topics and activities to help students developappropriate learning skills were identified [7-9]. These topics were prepared into a series ofmodules that could be used in a first-year seminar. To add a credit for a mandatory first-yearseminar required a broader overview of the engineering foundations courses (required forsecondary admission into the engineering programs). This review is being completed as part
on problem solving and STEM related. 3. Doing activities that hands on, messy, relevant to the girls’ world, and age appropriate (11yo to 14yo).Engineering is based on design that includes identifying a problem and finding a solution whileconsidering constraints and trade-offs. While students are introduced to STEM concepts andnotions, there is a stringent need to present them with design principles blended with open-endedproblem-solving approaches faced by engineers in real life applications.The activities presented aimed to tap into the natural curiosities of the young women for inquiry,communication, construction and expression. Inquiry into the topics presented below for processunderstanding of design, communication through peer
well as the type of math coursestaken during the student’s first year. Chen [5] discovered that taking a lighter course load withless challenging math courses while having a poor performance in those courses lead to ahigh chance of switching out of STEM. Another noteworthy result from this study: All other factors being equal, bachelor’s degree STEM entrants who first attended public 4-year institutions had a higher probability of leaving STEM by switching majors than those who started at private nonprofit 4-year institutions. Bachelor’s degree STEM entrants who were male or who came from low-income backgrounds had a higher probability of leaving STEM by dropping out of college than their peers who were female or came from
instructor.Successes and Lessons LearnedThis class seems to satisfy many of the learning objectives quite well. When assessing their ownabilities, students who completed both the intro and the exit survey over the last two years showeda 20% improvement in their ability to “communicate STEM to younger students”, a 23%improvement in their ability to “manage a classroom”, a 51% improvement in “developing STEMlessons”, a 32% improvement in “classroom time management”, and a 39% improvement in“working with peer instructors.” Students were also asked about how extensive and how unjustsocial, economic, and educational injustice is (i) world-wide, (ii) nationally, (iii) in the Bay Area(California), (iv) in neighborhoods surrounding SCU, and (v) at SCU. In almost all
affecting the ability of different students to feel socially included among theirclassmates and strive academically. To answer this question, we sent a survey to all Computer andElectrical Engineering students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo asking about their experiences withthese types of expenses. Ultimately the survey collected responses from 114 students across theeconomic spectrum, from students facing homelessness due to education costs, to those who donot face financial burdens or the need to work to support their education.Overall some of the results of this paper were promising. Students of lower means largely do notreport feeling ostracized from their peers based on laptop ownership or the need to rely on coursepartners to pay for components
, students would not realize the need, or whether it is even possible, to write a reallycompact code desired by miniature embedded controllers. Additionally, students see real-world usageof the topics they have learned in digital electronics classes, particularly logic circuit blocks such asALUs (Arithmetic and Logic Units), registers, and data direction control blocks, etc. High-levellanguages typically do not expose students to the architecture of processors and their atomic actions.There are many concepts and techniques in high-level programming that can only be analyzed andscrutinized by assembly level actions. Assembly coding teaches them details about the processor andmicrocontroller functions, and builds their confidence to use embedded
understanding together and are working with common interests for theirteaching even if they are teaching different classes.Faculty development groups were designed to follow the SIMPLE principles, which had beendeveloped and refined during a prior project that studied a network of ongoing faculty learningcommunities in a single discipline but across multiple institutions [8]. The SIMPLE principlesare: Sustainable – groups are small, ongoing, relevant to participants; Incremental change –participants identify and implement small, manageable changes that can require only modesttime and are not overwhelming; Mentoring – participants receive mentoring from the groupleader, as well as peer mentoring form other members of the group; People-driven
Pi Epsilon honorary society.Dr. Cliff C Zou, University of Central Florida Dr. Cliff Zou received his PhD degree from Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in 2005, and MS and BS degree from University of Science & Technology of China in 1999 and 1996, respectively. Currently he is an Associate Professor in Department of Com- puter Science and the Program Coordinator of Digital Forensics Master program in University of Central Florida. His research interests focus on cybersecurity and computer networking. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed research papers, and has obtained more than 5800 Google Scholar Citations. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE
or teaching assistant support, as well as by providing students who take the course as partof their graduation, professional development, and/or teaching requirements. Finally, external in-dustry sponsors offer additional, sustainable financial support as well as some industry-perspectiveinstruction in return for the opportunity to recruit from a pool of graduate students.ActivitiesThe course consists of a weekly seminar that can be taken for one or two credit hours. Seminarsare taught in an active-learning style, with plentiful group discussions and in-class activities suchas think-pair-share. Some seminars are supplemented by reflective writing assignments. Studentswho take the course for two credits also complete a research project and
emphasizes learning withoutthe burden of assignments and without assessment through intimidating exams and tests unlike atraditional classroom environment. Oliveira adopted active learning approaches to encourageactive learning and engagement among students in face-to-face electrical engineering technologycourses. The assessment results demonstrated that the active learning strategies havesuccessfully met the teaching requirements (Oliveira, 2015). Cooperative learning activitiespromote peer interaction and assist the development of engineering course in terms of betterlearning of concepts and content. Akili developed a cooperative learning method in a large-scaleengineering education, in which the cooperative learning has been proven to be
), AAAS (Fellow), ASME (Fellow), RAeS (Fellow), and ASEE (member). Dr. Pidaparti will move to University of Georgia in January 2014 as a professor of mechanical engineering.Prof. Christopher Stewart Rose, James Madison University I do research on the development and evolution of amphibian anatomy and I teach courses on comparative anatomy of vertebrate animals, animal development, human development and evolution, scientific writing, and biology in the movies.Ms. Elizabeth Marie Tafoya Elizabeth Tafoya is a fourth year engineering student at James Madison University. In addition to engi- neering, Elizabeth has a minor in geology. She has participated in Bio-inspired Design for Dr. J Nagel since the Spring of 2017 to
available, we have found that establishing peer mentoring circles amongthose in systemically minoritized groups greatly bolsters their belonging and advancement inengineering and STEM fields at large.This workshop is primarily designed for researchers but can also be meaningful foreducators/program administrators and other engineering related practitioners in thinking throughhow research can be used for advancing social justice in the work they do. 2Our Social Justice Values and Terms…What are they? –10 minutes(5 minutes) We believe in the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as central to ourresearch. [As indicated in Handout]Diversity
emergency via a variety of visual,auditory and cognitive cues, such as smoke, light, noise, movement, fire alarm, peer action,etc. Particularly, the function and mechanism of fire alarms, a key component in fireprotection engineering system, are examined. Students learn about the type and workingmechanism of fire alarm system, effectiveness and failure of fire alarm under variousconditions, as well as how fire alarm is related to other components of fire protectionsystem, such as fire suppression system and smoke control system.Further, this section introduces theories of decision-making models in a fire emergency.After studying the decision-making process, students are guided to think about whypeople respond differently, i.e. make different
.O’Sullivan, D., 2003. Online project based learning in innovation management. Education+ Training, 45(2), pp.110-117.Shaffer, C.D. et al. (2010). The Genomics Education Partnership: successful integration of research into laboratory classes at a diverse group of undergraduate institutions. CBE Life Sci Educ. 9, 55-6.Shaffer, C.D. et al. (2014). A Course-Based Research Experience: How Benefits Change with Increased Investment in Instructional Time. CBE-Life Sci. Educ. 13, 111–130.Tamim, S.R. and Grant, M.M. (2013). Definitions and uses: Case study of teachers implementing project-based learning. Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning, 7(2), pp.3.Van Den Bogaard, M.E. and Saunders-Smits, G.N., 2007, October. Peer &
harbor beliefs about what theirmajor or field of study indicate about themselves, and likewise what other students’ decisionssay about them. For example, it is widely accepted that many engineers believe nontechnicalskills to be easy and subsequently less valuable in the grander scheme of things [10]. A belieflike this could potentially impact the way that an engineering student interacts with a teammatein a nontechnical major like political science or creative writing. By encouraging students tocollaborate with a diverse team in a capstone environment, they are given the chance toexperience interdisciplinary interactions prior to entering the professional world. Further,observing and gaining an understanding of the impact that this pre
,” “relatable” and“engaging” (p. 196) [44]. Students in a social science department in the U.K. described viewingtheir TAs as near-peers and therefore more approachable and better positioned to providestudents with support and advice [8]. In a study of students in inquiry-based chemistry courses,Wheeler et al. [18] found significant correlations between student perceptions of TAs (as “moresupportive,” “more interactive,” “asked thoughtful questions”) and student-reported learninggains. Similarly, Trenshaw et al. [17] posited that “students take motivational cues from theTA,” (p. 1202) with students reporting higher motivation in a second-year engineering coursewhen they perceived their TA as caring about their learning. A TA’s sense of self-efficacy
in academia and research, broaden my knowledge base, engage in evidence-based practices to promote the quality of life, and ultimately be an avid contributor to the world of academia through research, peer reviews, and publications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Negotiating Identity as a Response to Shame: A Study of Shame within an Experience as a Woman in EngineeringAbstract: This research paper presents the findings of an interpretative phenomenologicalanalysis (IPA) case study of the experience of shame in a woman engineering student. Ouroverarching research question that framed this study was: How do woman students with multiplesalient identities
class.But the reality is that some students will exploit this. New instructors are forewarned that theyshould expect heartrending emails and face-to-face begging from students who want to passwithout learning. Some students will do almost anything to get a grade changed. Instructorsshould be open to show a student how the final grade is computed, yet should not alter any gradesbecause the failing grade with bring dire consequences. All students must be graded using thesame grading criteria. Examples of recent emails are shared to help prepare new teachers, one isincluded here: Professor XXX, I have tried my best to do everything except write you and bother you again. I have truly become desperate and I want you to know that I have
Paper ID #26352Factors Influencing the Interest Levels of Male versus Female Students goinginto STEM Fields (Evaluation)Dr. Murad Musa Mahmoud, Wartburg College Murad is an Assistant Professor at the Engineering Science Department at Wartburg College. He has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Utah State University. Research interests include recruitment into STEM, diversity in STEM as well pedagogy and instruction.Ms. Jessica Marie Faber, Wartburg College Jessica is a student at Wartburg College studying Engineering Science with a minor in Creative Writing and Mathematics. She is active with soccer at Wartburg and works
Students (IRES) projects funded by the NSF. He has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.Dr. Kang Xia, Virginia Tech Kang Xia received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1997), M.S. from Louisiana State University (1993), and B.S. from Beijing Agricultural University (1989). She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1997-1998), an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University (1998-2001), University of Georgia (2002-2005), and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Mississippi State University (2006-2010), an Associate Professor at Mississippi State University (2010- 2011) and at Virginia Tech (2011-2016). She also served as Director for Re
, incorporating design work, self-assessmentand reflection, prototyping and creation, all with supervision and support. Another corecomponent is empowered peer-to-peer mentoring: PRL course assistants (CAs) are graduatestudents who have themselves been burnished in the cauldron of the PRL. They understand theelation of success and the opportunity within failure – and know how to turn both into learningmoments for students. The PRL CAs are guided by four faculty, and these groups collectivelyform a community of practice with mixed levels of experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.Students learn from faculty, CAs, and peers; CAs learn from faculty, students, and other CAs;and faculty learn from students, CAs, and each other. This forms a rich fabric
textbooks used in networkingcourses, the ''contents of these textbooks vary substantially even though these textbooks are usedfor courses having similar descriptions." They noted that subnetting was not covered in enoughdetail for student to understand their basics.Students need to be able to work through practical networking scenarios relying on their grasp ofnetwork fundamentals, perform suitable calculations and device configurations referring to textand online resources along with communicate their ideas to peers in an effective way. Often theextensive calculations required for setting up sub networks and advanced topics such as variablelength subnet masking, super networks, or the use of client-server configurations, can be difficultto
at the university level and as they pursue careers in industry. Graduating this December, she hopes to retain this knowledge for the benefit of herself and other women engineers as she pursues an industry career.Dr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is Associate Professor of Engineering Education Research in the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, USA. Dr. Leydens’ research and teaching interests are in engineering education, communication, and social justice. Dr. Leydens is author or co- author of 40 peer-reviewed papers, co-author of Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (Morgan and Claypool, 2010), and editor of Sociotechnical
a Turbulent Era.Katie JohansonDr. Kinnis Gosha, Morehouse College Dr. Kinnis Gosha (Go-Shay) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Di- rector of the Culturally Relevant Computer Lab at Morehouse College. Dr. Gosha’s research interests include conversational agents, social media data analytics, computer science education, broadening par- ticipation in computing and culturally relevant computing. More specifically, Gosha’s passion lies in his research in virtual mentoring where he has several peer-reviewed research publications. Gosha’s Cultur- ally Relevant Computing Lab is comprised of approximately 10 top undergraduate researchers each year from Morehouse College, Spelman College
each. During the first brainstorm session,students were allowed to discuss with each other topics within the local wicked problem thatinterested them. A follow up discussion was facilitated by the teaching assistants and generalresearch topics were then established by the TAs based on student interests. Students alsoidentified deliverables they would like to see for this project, and these were then incorporatedinto the syllabus.At the second brainstorming session students completed personalized index cards stating theirresearch interests with the class project and then worked for the first time with peers on theirselected group project. In groups of 3 to 8, they shared ideas with each other on the topicssummarized by the TAs and wrote these
formed and assigned one of the activities to work on during their tutorial and write anaccompanying report. These groups were later able to experience one of the other activities andasked to create a video report. After both activities and reports were complete, about two monthsinto the term, students were shown one of the videos during class. They were also directed to theother videos and encouraged to watch them on their own time outside of class. Once everyonehad an opportunity to watch the videos, a quiz was given based on the content of the activities,for which students answered questions only about the activities their group participated in duringclass. Around this time they were also sent a survey to provide their opinions about the