, networkingevents, and overall social interactions with colleagues in a technical atmosphere. Revitalizingthese efforts and advancing their development is crucial for student professional development,which has shown to be a significant contributor to successful entry into the workforce [12]-[15].We tried to overcome these limitations and leverage the advantages of online interactionsthrough the following events.Strategy for Success Seminars - These events were focused on expanding students’perspectives of resources and skills associated with the engineering fields. The ESC engaged inthree events: an Engineering Resources Fair, Students Orgs 101, and Technical Writing Seminar.These seminars presented the importance of connecting with University
technology, curriculum and instruction, leadership, and technical writing pedagogy.Dr. Jaafar M. Alghazo, Virginia Military Institute Dr. Jaafar Alghazo is an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute. He graduated from Southern Illinois University with a Ph.D in Engineering Sci- ence/Computer Engineering in 2004 and M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2000 from the same university. He worked at the American University in Dubai, the University of Central Florida, and Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University before joining the Virginia Military Institute as a Tenure Track faculty member. His research interests are in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
understanding Clean Water Access in the US.In the Analyze section, the students determined what sort of calculations, including economic, andvisuals were need to tell the story of Clean Water Access and present the data. By the end of theEngage and Analyze sections, students’ goal was to ensure that other readers could understandconflicting sides of the issue in the report.For the Reflect section, students were asked to write individual reflections on what they hadlearned in the Engage and Analyze sections. Here they answered the following questions. “Whatare your opinions about the issues?” “How did your opinions change while doing the assignmentand discussions compared to what you thought or knew about the topic before the project?” “Isthere a
relationships among STEM facultyacross central Pennsylvania.The mentoring network has grown to a 2017 cohort of 44 participants in seven STEMdisciplines, traveling up to 100 miles from 21 colleges and universities. Core workshop topicshave included Work/Life Balance, Writing Productivity, and Self-Advocacy, as well as annualSymposia on Collaborative Research Opportunities and Innovative Teaching and ImprovingTeaching Evaluations. Program evaluation shows almost all involved women have remained inacademia and advanced through the ranks while feeling less isolated. An innovative sustainablefunding model is being piloted by transitioning to a social business model that extendsprogramming to STEM women in industry and government. Industry sponsors gain
thinking, encouraged engage in a writing process to support students and teacher students to generate conjectures and arguments with evidence, Work in “Lessons where teachers alternate strategies pairs or small groups, explain their characteristically speak and reasoning or thinking using several students listen are not Student: Engaged in discussions with sentences orally or in writing reformed”. peers, asked questions of peers and/or teacherThe results are shown in
teacher familiarity or comfort with teachingdesign, engineering, and technology subjects [16] , and a focus on literacy and math standardizedtesting in the early grades, with STEM subjects like science not being assessed in [this state]until fifth grade. At the time of writing this paper, a search of the NSF-sponsoredTeachEngineering.org website--a peer-reviewed repository of standards-aligned engineeringactivities, lessons, and curricula--produced only 28 entries recommended for grades K-2, out of1660 total K-12 entries in the database [17].Camp designAdding the richness of a scenario and background via a storybook, campers connected theproject work they were doing with a broader cause. During the first day, we read Mr. BearSquash-You-All-Flat
over sixty publications in peer reviewed conference and journals and she was member, PI or CO-PI of several multidisciplinary research grants, sponsored by the European Union, NSF and industry. She is an IEEE member and chair of IEEE WIE, Long Island section.Mr. Clint S Cole, Digilent, Inc.Prof. Mircea Alexandru Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Studies: 1979-1984: five year engineering program at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Polytechnic Institute in Cluj-Napoca. 1998: PhD in Electron- ics,Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Professional Experience: 1984-1986: Design Engineer at IEIA Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1986-1991: Research Engineer at IPA Cluj
about levels of performance. After some discussion, we decidedthat a rubric might be more appropriate for our purpose.Developing a RubricIn order to get more background on developing measures of performance, one of theauthors attended a workshop on Designing Performance Measures at Washington StateUniversity. The workshop, which helped us get started on a rubric and gave us a modelof a development process, was sponsored by the Northwest Regional ProfessionalDevelopment Center and facilitated by Pacific Crest personnel.A rubric is a scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of student work. Rubrics havebeen used extensively in the evaluation of student writing and, more recently, in theevaluation of many different types of student work
scientists in many circumstances not because they want to, nor because they lack the intellectual capability to analyze the situation more closely, but because they must make decisions. Key to understanding the certainty trough is the idea that groups socially close to knowledge production (engineers, scientists, technical writers, etc.) show more uncertainty than non-technical peers, with those very far (socially) from knowledge production showing the greatest uncertainty and distrust. The uncertainty for knowledge producers takes two forms: personal uncertainty (knowing enough to know what is unknown) and group uncertainty (when multiple engineers disagree on some aspect of a technological
. Page 14.668.2NCETE Teacher Professional Development Positioning of the teacher as developer of lessons facilitates coherence with otherlearning activities occurring in each teacher’s classroom. Specifically, teachers can situate theengineering design concepts into their curriculum by crafting a lesson rather than attempting tofit a pre-packaged generic lesson into an existing and, perhaps, rigidly structured curriculum.The lesson development opportunities provide teachers with an active learning experience,wherein they first experience exemplary engineering design challenges as participants and thencreate design challenges. Formative feedback was provided by peer teachers and professionaldevelopers as the teachers developed the lessons
and toreceive training in such areas as group dynamics.The hands-on, learning-centered nature of the MIMIC project is utilized in recruiting. Highschool students are brought to campus to participate in project-related activities andexperience the technology available to the college teams, for example, rapid prototyping.High school instructors identify students/graduates as potential leadership track students.Those students are encouraged to enroll in a college strategies course, free of charge, and thenare paid to offer peer support to other technical students.Freshmen in engineering and electronics for whom English is a second language are beingassessed on language skills required for them to succeed in their technical programs. ESLstudents
children. Through it the accumulated wisdom of a culture is transmitted. Eggleston’s paradigm is similar to the “Scholar Academic ideology” proposed by Schiro. “Scholar academics” writes Schiro, “assume that the academic disciplines, the world of the intellect, and the world of knowledge are loosely equivalent. The central task of education is taken to be the extension of the components of this equivalence, both on the cultural level as reflected in the discovery of new truth, and on the individual level, as reflected in the enculturation of individuals into civilization’s accumulated knowledge and ways of knowing” [12]. Jerome Bruner a distinguished American psychologist wrote: “A body of
librarians or between alibrarian and a faculty member [11]. Atkinson (2018) provides an overview of different types ofcollaborations involving academic libraries and librarians [12]. He identifies several main typesincluding internal collaboration, collaboration with faculty, collaboration with other supportdepartments (e.g. writing centers), and collaboration with students [12]. In one collaboration[13], faculty and librarians worked with students in a large environmental science class whowere from a wide variety of majors. Collaborators found that the students’ technical and libraryresearch skills varied widely, creating challenges [13]. We have experienced the same withDAEN students. The lack of library skills, especially those related to finding
. Additionally, Mariam has taught both on-level and AP Physics I (formerly known as Pre-AP Physics) and played an integral role in writing the district physics curriculum consisting of rigorous labs, activities, and projects. Mariam fills the role of Alumni Representative on the UTeach STEM Educators Association (USEA) Board and was also elected Secretary-Treasurer. She is also currently pursuing a Ph.D. in STEM education at Texas Tech University.Mr. Ricky P. Greer, University of Houston Ricky Greer graduated from Tuskegee University with a bachelor’s in History. He went on to work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a community outreach specialist & unit operations laboratory manager, and through his
founder head of the innovation Center. Dr Waychal earned his Ph D in the area of developing Innovation Competencies in Information System Organizations from IIT Bombay and M Tech in Control Engineering from IIT Delhi. He has presented keynote / invited talks in many high prole international conferences and has published papers in peer- reviewed journals. He / his teams have won awards in Engineering Education, Innovation, Six Sigma, and Knowledge Management at international events. His current research interests are engineering edu- cation, software engineering, and developing innovative entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. He was chosen as one of the five outstanding engineering educators by IUCEE (Indo-universal
occurred in controlled research settings, developing our understanding of what it is and whyit is beneficial. Much less is known about how to help students develop metacognitive skills inclassroom settings, that is, how to teach metacognition. Further, there are significant bodies ofresearch on the role of metacognition in writing and solving math problems, but little work hasbeen done on the role of metacognition within engineering disciplines.Metacognition is particularly important in the training and development of engineers as problemsolvers. Practicing engineers are problem solvers, engaging ill-structured and ill-defined real-world problems. Metacognitive skills function to help problem solvers navigate such messyproblems – enabling them to
an ASEAN regional standard.4While both ABET and AUN-QA are nonprofit, non-governmental organizations, they featurevery different organizational structures (it should also be noted that AUN is a much youngerorganization than ABET and its predecessors). ABET limits its membership to technicalsocieties, currently 35 members, that represent related professions. The bulk of the work withinABET activities is done by volunteers from academia, government, and industry.5 The membersocieties nominate individuals to act as these volunteers, who are key participants in ABET’sacademic program peer-review process. Programs accredited by ABET range from the associatedegree to master degrees, depending on the accreditation commission. ABET is divided
scales) and categorical responses (e.g., structured or fixed responsequestions). In addition to these closed-ended formats, researchers also use open-ended questions.Open-ended questions can be added onto existing fixed-choice questions (e.g., including an“other” option that allows respondents to specify an answer excluded from the choices), or usedas a standalone question (i.e., where respondents are not provided any answer optionswhatsoever and must write or type in their response). For example, a researcher could use aclosed-ended question to ask for a respondent’s level of education and offer choices rangingfrom “high school” to a “doctoral degree” while providing the “Other” option or simply ask,“What is your highest level of education
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. In addition to his industry experience, he has spent two years, while completing his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, as a National Science Foun- dation GK-12 fellow - teaching and bring real-word STEM applications in two urban high schools. He has authored peer-reviewed articles, presented at national/international conferences, and taught under- graduate/graduate courses in both Hardware Security (computer science & engineering) as well as STEM Education and Outreach.Dr. Andrea Carneal Burrows, University of Wyoming Dr. Andrea C. Burrows received a Curriculum and Instruction: Science Specialization research Ed.D. from the University of Cincinnati, M.S. in Science
by analyzing in detail the context where the negotiations were made, and seestep-by-step how the teams were able to reach agreement. Figure 5. Images from “Sticky Notes” Tool 02: Using Sticky Notes, a boundary object to negotiate in larger teams These boundary objects shown in Figure 5, were usually present with large groups of individualsinvolved in the negotiation (i.e. when externals were invited to a meeting). “There were just toomany people to have everybody write on the board,” a student remarks. Sticky notes entailedlittle squares that have an adhesive on one of its sides and that could be placed on a surface. Theyshowed to be useful when there were large amounts of
favorable for materials courses, offering some evidence the applied focus has beenwell received. Other information collected from students (e.g. exit interviews, surveys, impactstatements) also suggest the applied focus has been well received with average responses on a 10point scale being in the 9 to 10 range in most cases.MSU’s materials program is in some ways similar to the University of Arkansas (UA)approaches described a few years ago that were reported to be favorably received bypractitioners4. Both align more closely to professional (as opposed to academic) models forlaboratory activities. MSU uses professional specifications (e.g. ASTM, AASHTO, state DOT)as opposed to laboratory manuals. Also, writing assignments are more closely aligned
further engagestudents in their coursework and to introduce freshman to some of the basic concepts ofengineering. A form of “student-centered education” where the instructor acts as a guide to theexperiential learning process is preferred over the traditional class lecture format according toSpencer & Mehler[10]. Hixson[4] refer to this as instructor “role-modeling,” where the instructoradvises and nudges the students through a thought process. The decisions are ultimately made bythe students and they are the owners of their solution. The research presented by Ambrose[1]similarly advocates the use of experiential learning opportunities. To better provide students withtimely feedback, the in-class methods of peer instruction, case studies, and
), CHBE unidisciplinary (n=194). Table 1. Project Timeline Week BIOE CHBE BIOE CHBE Crossdisciplinary Crossdisciplinary Unidisciplinary Unidisciplinary 1 Receive project & begin Receive project Receive project & Phase I & begin Phase I begin Phase I 2 Complete Phase I, meet Meet with BIOE peers & Complete Phase I Complete Phase I with CHBE peers & share review Phase I write-up Phase I write-up 3 BIOEs support CHBE
contributions. Video gamedesigners also have embraced badges to encourage longer game play, providingrecognition/rewards and the ability to show those badges to peers as a measure of achievementin the game.5 The Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI), on the other hand, is an initiative to takebadging into a truly internet-centric environment. In particular, the OBI is attempting to distill themost important characteristics of a badging system and creating open protocols that allow thosewho bestow credentials to communicate across organizations and communities.According to Havalais the OBI “represents a framework for making badges (microcredentialswith icons) machine-readable, portable, and verifiable in distributed digital networks… OBI-compliant badges
coordination, as well as thestrength of the student and academic affairs collaboration, mostly depend on the institutionalenvironment and the characteristics of the students, faculty, and staff who will participate12, 13.First-Year SeminarsSince the late 1800s, the primary focus of first-year seminars has been to assist students duringtheir adjustment to college and to increase their chances of being successful14 (Boyer, 1987).Gardner (1986) contends that students are much more likely to be successful throughout collegeif a strong foundation is provided during their first year. As such, the purpose of first-yearseminars is to help students establish a connection with the college as well as their peers. Ageneral assumption is that students will acquire
to be critical in expediting acquisition ofresearch skills. In other words, each class period was designed to facilitate hands-on and minds-on learning opportunities through peer-peer and peer-instructor interactions. A significant number of communication- based activities were integrated throughout the course, including in-class and out-of- Research class written responses, in-class discussion Triangle pairs and discussion groups, poster
, carrier flow and small-signal models; (iii) light emission and detection with semiconductor junctions. Students received videos weeks before the class and the average length of the video was 23 minutes. Some concepts were covered over 2 or 3 videos (to be discussed in a single class). The class was organized as described in the figure below.Before class In class After class Watch the videos Quiz Students Take notes Discuss about Check their understanding Write question questions from video Extend their learning Group activity
assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains on the financial health of a company. She has published her research in Journal of Business Logistics, International Jour- nal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and peer-reviewed proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.Lei Xie, Texas A&M University Lei Xie is a doctoral student at Texas A&M University. He is currently majoring in Human Resource Development in the Department of Educational Administration & Human Resource Development. His research interests include conflict
to develop a comprehensive theoretical and numerical multiscale strategy to accelerate the battery design process. He has presented his work nationally and internationally and has publications in several peer-reviewed journals. Currently, he is investigating the kinetics of nanoparticle dissolution at the mesocontinuum level using the phase field method. The goal is to develop a com- prehensive, theoretical and numerical strategy to predict the dissolution kinetics of small particles from experimentally measurable parameters to accelerate the particle engineering process during formulation development. Example applications include researching the effects of engineered particle size distribu- tions in solid dosage
Paper ID #30819Program: Study DesignMs. Rebecca Balakrishnan, University of Manitoba I am a career development professional with 8 years of experience working with post-secondary students at University of Manitoba on all aspects of career exploration, planning and job search. This takes a variety of forms, including one-on-one appointments, facilitating workshops, and writing resources. Recently, as part of my Master of Education in Counselling Psychology thesis, I have collaborated with faculty in the Faculty of Engineering to integrate career development activities into the Biosystems Engineering curriculum.Dr