. CraigMarianno, assistant professor in nuclear engineering and Deputy Director Center for NuclearSecurity Science and Policy Initiative (NSSPI) at Texas A&M University; and special guest NASAAstronaut Captain Stephen Bowen who served on a US Navy nuclear submarine - the firstsubmarine officer selected for the astronaut program with three missions to the ISS. The post-campNPSI survey results from the high school students indicated a 95% increase in understanding ofnuclear science. In July 2021, the Nuclear Science Summer Institute was shortened to two daysonline and the Day of Science was held separately face to face.Our paper describes the methods used to transform what was initially planned as a face-to-facesummer camp on the PVAMU campus to an
a coach he supports campus leaders and science teachers in the delivery of classroom lessons that focus on the integration of STEM and active learning techniques through individualized coaching, co-planning, facilitating and co- facilitating Professional Learning Communities, and actionable feedback after classroom observations. One of the coaching roles is part of the STEM Academy for Science Teachers & Leaders initiative that is intended to increase student achievement in science, student interest in STEM careers, and students’ persistence in STEM coursework by supporting teachers’ professional knowledge, skills, and campus ad- ministrators’ instructional leadership skills. Through coaching he has also
/future work, we will explore the use of speechand language processing technology to automate measurement of target PMLU and conversationalturn analysis. Conversational interactions of adults and children in naturalistic environments can beanalyzed to provide tracking data for teachers to consider when writing lesson plans and adaptingteaching methods for diverse students. References1. Durham, R. E., Farkas, G., Hammer, C. S., Bruce Tomblin, J., & Catts, H. W. (2007). Kindergarten oral language skill: A key variable in the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 25(4), 294-305. doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2007.03.0012
sensors to help in introducing biomedical solutions that areeasily accessible to a large part of the global population. However, before we plan to release a potentialsmartphone app in real life, it needs to be compliant with basic standards. For example, for health-related phone apps, some of the applicable standards could be: • ISO TC215> ISO/TR 17522:2015 Provisions for health applications on mobile/smart devices • FDA Playbook on Medical Device Cybersecurity • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guidelines on Health Information Technology • HL7 Consumer Mobile Health Application Functional Framework (cMHAFF)We believe that it would be best to make the app free for purchase because we created the
%, Pell enrollment ~50% of the total enrollment. Based on a total enrollment of about 1500 students per class. * African American average GPA gap is significantly higher than URM, typically 0.3-0.85, and enrollment is about 5% of the total. A 0.4 gap in GPA separates ‘B+’ and ‘A-’ grades, for example. Data provided by the California State University Student Success Dashboard [30]To overcome the GPA gap and the DFW disparities, we plan to redesign six critical-path, largeenrollment courses ENGR1 Introduction to Engineering, ENGR17 Introductory Circuit Analysis,EEE117 Network Analysis, EEE108 Electronics I, EEE161 Applied Electromagnetics, andEEE180 Signals & Systems, based on active
things in that direction”(Senior in Chemical Engineering).Another mentor highlights these many opportunities when they say they “want to pursue a careerin energy resources in some way, hopefully, solar, wind or water…I'm also really passionateabout pursuing a career in green architecture and going into the planning and design process ofthat” (Female Junior in Environmental Engineering). Whether these mentees pursue a degree inSTEM or not, the relationships they will build with these environmentally-minded mentors willbleed into other aspects of their life. As one student says, “... after graduation I would like tofocus my career goals on sustainable development in rural communities both domestically andabroad. I envision a combination of field
the code of ethics of at least one engineering or scientific society 5. Describe key moral theories relevant to ethical decision-making 6. Define “the public” and discuss its role in the production of technical knowledge 7. Identify skills, other than technical proficiency, that are necessary for competent practice in engineering and science 8. Describe the kind of engineer/scientist you aspire to become 9. Develop a comprehensive plan to identify ethical dilemmas in real-world cases as well as processes by which to determine preferable solutions to these dilemmasMost notably, course alumni placed far greater emphasis on the importance of interacting withpeople whom their work may impact
A future research effort is planned to quantitatively assess the impacts of incentives,disincentives, and feedback in one study involving students. The research is being conductedwith a large enough sample size of different sections of students within the same course andlimits the number of faculty involved in teaching to reduce confounding variables in the study.The TEAMMATES tool provides the primary data collection at various points throughout thecourse (e.g., after an assignment, or incentive/disincentive event) to capture its impact on studentperformance. Other data will be collected through simple surveys Microsoft Forms at theappropriate times. Adequately sized control and test groups are used. For example, if oneinstructor teaches
alone and keeps personal matters private. As a highly organized person,every event is meticulously planned before acting, even if it is for fun. Systematiccommunicators are distinguished by their frugal and prudent approach. They have very highexpectations for themselves and others, which can manifest as a critical and pessimisticapproach to communication. How do you communicate with someone who is SY? - Toeffectively communicate with a systematic person, avoid small talk about personal matters. Itis critical not to rush and to give the person time and space to think about the situation athand. Because the systematic communicator is likely to be skeptical of what you say, beprepared to provide detailed answers backed up by precise data. Also
continue to expand on the pedagogical framework we designed for thisstudy by developing educational activities designed to position students to draw on CSTs acrossthe design process. For example, we plan to cultivate local, national, and internationalpartnerships to develop course projects that allow students to engage with real communities andapply CSTs to real design projects. Our goal is to address engineering education's technocentrismby educating students on frameworks for analyzing social context in engineering design.References [1] Cech, E. (2012). Great problems of grand challenges: Problematizing engineering’s understandings of its role in society. International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace
with most things of a complex nature there are many problems that we maynot foresee. In doing our best to avoid these issues, diligent planning and research-basedsolutions will be utilized to provide students with an environment that is conducive tocollaborative learning. While the development of 3-D modeling skills and spatial ability areintegral to this project it is important to keep in mind that at the heart of the ABLE project is thedevelopment of a collaborative learning experience that can potentially help us addresschallenges we face as a global community.Figure 1Community Water TankFigure 2Automated Milk Line REFERENCESAllen, D. E., Donham, R. S., & Bernhardt, S. A. (2011). Problem
Texas Rio Grande Valley. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A New Course in Defense Manufacturing – An Introduction to ShipbuildingAbstract: This paper discusses the development and deployment of a new course in DMEI(Defense Manufacturing Engineering Innovation) titled, “Introduction to Shipbuilding.” Thiscourse has been taught using Zoom since 2021. After a brief literature review, an outline of thecourse is presented with topics including the maritime market for shipbuilding, economics ofshipbuilding, the classification agencies, metallurgy and welding processes, ship structure andassembly, shipyard layout, accuracy control, and shipbuilding planning and scheduling.Difficulties in obtaining an
? 3. What are you hoping to gain from this research experience? 4. How is your research going so far? 5. How do you plan to fit your research into your schedule?Data AnalysisA priori coding [16] was used to identify what students expected to learn, what they had learnedalready, and what challenges they had faced. In vivo subcodes were then applied in order toidentify what kinds of learning occurred and challenges that were encountered. The subcodeswithin each primary code were analyzed and grouped in order to identify themes that answeredeach research question. Coding was conducted primarily by Author 1, and coding checks wereconducted by Author 2.LimitationsThis study was conducted in one department at one university and hence
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their engagement, learning, andachievement while removing the demotivation and mental stress of having lower grades [37].Faculty can also make students see the importance of the class at the beginning of the semester.Asking students what they want to take from the class and apply it in their career as theassignment after the first lecture can promote intrinsic motivation. In addition, faculty shouldutilize active learning pedagogy that has shown evidence to increase student engagement duringcourse learning.References[1] R. M. Gonyea, K. A. Kish, G. D. Kuh, R. N. Muthiah, and A. D. Thomas, 4th ed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, Policy, and Planning.: College Student Experiences Questionnaire
, colleges could better integrate other supportstructures such as friends or family into programs and activities they plan (4) Finally, one couldargue that the barriers themselves could be directly addressed to improve student experiences.While this is true and needed for sustaining systems improvements over the long term, utilizingcapacities and key enablers that already exists and works for the students might serve as a goodfirst step to ignite the process of systems-based improvements.The capabilities and deficiencies of the college in its goals, policies, processes, programs (thetechnical system), and how well the technical system in the college aligns with institutional goalsand environments directly impact the college’s success in recruiting
outcomes is helpful in knowing what we need to understand but not as important as the content itself”Based on the comments, we can see that more junior/senior level students expressed how helpfuland important is a good definition of learning outcomes for establishing their goals for the courseand for defining their study plan for the course.Conclusions and Future WorkA correct definition of the learning outcomes is crucial for the students to make more effectiveuse of them during their learning process in the courses.Technological tools such as LMSs help substantially in the management of the learningoutcomes definition. They also help in its publication and evaluation week by week or lesson bylesson, making it easy for the students to have
entrepreneurship education has developed beyond creating a businesstowards building entrepreneurial skills and business planning [5]. Therefore, there is a need toreview fields closely tied to entrepreneurship, such as leadership and innovation as well.Furthermore, a more holistic review is needed to examine various aspects of entrepreneurshipeducation beyond the delivery of courses, but with the inclusion of teaching methods,extracurricular activities, and curriculum design.More work is being done in the field of entrepreneurship in Canada, with the development ofcourses that focus on specific aspects of entrepreneurship beyond technical skills.Entrepreneurship education also now focuses on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Forexample, as part of
been instituted, theassessment results are presented in summary form in Table 3. The data are summarized for eachsemester as the count of assessments that are either above or below the designated criteria of 3.0,per each SO and by either I, R, or A assessment type. A principal result indicated in thissummary format is the fact that 50% or more of assessments are below 3.0 for SOs 1, 2 and in afew cases, for SOs 6 and 7. A possible cause may be the relatively wide range of engineeringstudent performance our program experiences, since it is not a Tier 1 school where GPArequirements for graduation are typically more stringent. Historically, the department faculty hasindicated an action plan of “more example problems will be conducted during class
Davenport Bridget Davenport is a SMART Scholar for Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) at the Port Huen- eme Division. She graduated from Ventura College with an Associates in Science with Engineering Honors. She transferred to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in pursuit of an Electrical/Mechanical Engineering degree. She plans to attend UCLA to earn a Master’s Degree after returning back to work at the NSWC PHD. She is interested in working with the Vertical Launching System and Canister Maintenance and ORDALTSJason Faith BickfordLeslie AbellSara Dooley ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Section Conference
professionals looking to expand their networks, and similar aspects. In synthesizingand providing these resources in a consolidated repository, we provide an informationaloverview and easier access to resources that help support Black persons interested in computingand CS. As a result, this repository can be used as an assets-based instrument that can be sharedto increase awareness about resources and opportunities as well as interest to help broadenparticipation in computing and CS. In addition to this publication, we plan to disseminate thisrepository as an information source for a virtual mentoring chatbot created by one of the authors,and also through National Science Foundation reporting. Second, the compilation of this repository allows us
spatialreasoning, scale drawings and informal geometric constructions (Reporting Category 3, 7.6, 7.7,& 7.8). The theme of Drawing inferences about populations based on samples (ReportingCategory 5, 7.10 & 7.11) also underlies each of the experimental activities. Using data-collectionmaterials to help discern properties of operations in action such as generating equivalentexpressions by swapping out the order of collected data numbers to get the same result is just oneof many planned health-data activities with real-life consequences. Additionally, the project isideally suited to reinvigorate middle school students’ appreciation of random sampling to drawinferences about their unique population. Understanding that statistics can be used to
classroominstruction before the pandemic.Studies have shown that online education had a specific impact on engineering students. In [3], authorsfound that a considerable number of students changed their short-term plans about scheduling courses infuture semesters. Additionally, a noteworthy portion of students expressed concerns about theeffectiveness of online instruction. STEM students had to spend more time on self-directed learning andincreased time on their coursework overall [4]. Research has shown that blended (or hybrid) learninggenerally leads to better learning outcomes for STEM courses compared to non-STEM courses.However, paradoxically, students enrolled in hybrid STEM courses often report lower levels ofsatisfaction and may not view the courses
complete these in order to see the relevant exams. Are you coming to class? You should be working on these during it. Overall assessment: you have fallen behind in this course. You can absolutely catch up on things until the end of the course but it will get harder as more of them appear. Please come ask for help and make (and carry out) a plan to get caught up. Figure 8: Sample progress report for a student who is behind on several assignments.Classroom time On a typical lecture day, the students have watched a video and completed videoquestions before coming to class. The instructor puts up a short reminder of the days topics toserve as a quick reference for students. The instructor guides the students through the day’sactivity and in
push researchers andeducational practitioners to reformulate and package non-scientific ideas in a scientific andpositivist way to be able to achieve their goals (e.g., research funding, new course design). Toprevent such efforts and gain a better picture of different world views, we may utilize AIprograms as artificial assessors, reviewing proposals and plans primarily through textual andnatural language processing methods. However, we again need to set rule-based conditions andexceptions for AI programs on what to consider Scientific and Non-scientific and whereIndigenous ways of knowing fall into that spectrum. So for either AI or human decision-makers,choices need to be made on the chain of logic and reasoning employed to appropriately
that is so widely taken in engineering prac-tice, but that many engineering ethics education programs do not use, given the focus on the‘rules and codes’ approach. In an engineering education students can often be taught one‘correct’ way to solve problems. They are shown how to learn and apply new things, howto perform well and attain the correct answer through hard work, but not how to fail well.Students might end up attempting a problem multiple times, but failure is never expected orincluded as part of the design plan, and more so is always to be avoided, despite the valuablelessons such an experience can give. With ethical problems especially, where downstreameffects of engineering decisions can have many unintended consequences, failure
ofWashington, during which time she worked as a teaching assistant for the digital circuitintroductory series and took on internships in the aerospace industry. After graduation, Aliciaworked as a Systems Engineer for Philips Oral Health Care and startup Jeeva Wireless. Shepresently has no plans to return to engineering as a career.Eve Riskin, Ph.D., is Dean of Undergraduate Education at Stevens Institute of Technology.Before this role, she was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University ofWashington Seattle, where she also served as the Faculty Director of the ADVANCE Center forInstitutional Change. Her scholarly research focuses on promoting diversity and inclusion inSTEM students and faculty. Dr. Riskin is a Fellow in IEEE
future, the project team plans to conductexperiments with other variations of photoperiod. General observation of the trial indicated thatthe longer photoperiod helped the peanut plants to grow more vigorously with the increasedphotoperiod. The seed inoculation was randomized for each zone in Figures 3a and 3b, locationsdesignated as A indicates inoculated seeds, and B indicate non-inoculated seeds. For both trials,gypsum was added to the soil after the flowering of the plants. The peanuts were hand harvestedroughly five and a half months after planting for both FarmBot beds (April/May –September/October timeframe). The harvest from each plant was counted and weighed.4.0 Harvest Data AnalysisIrrigation was discontinued two weeks before the
conducted. The surveys’ outcomes andfeedback are used as metrics to measure the level of success of the application as well as tofurther improve the application. Currently, there are 24 survey members composed of individualsin the capstone authors’ communities. These participants were not filtered based on their interestor knowledge regarding skincare products. As testing continues, the team aims to gather resultsfrom more individuals within Canada. Additionally, the team is planning to conduct testing withpeople who are visually acute and impaired to assess the accessibility of Matilda.Testing was focused on the user-friendliness and ease-of-use of Matilda. In all trials, participantswere asked to load the web application and search for a product
datacorrectly and arrive at a logical conclusion based on the data. An outcome from ABET’scriteria for accrediting engineering programs was also included in this category: Shows an abilityto function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create acollaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.Skills OutcomesThe Skills outcomes include general college skills that are important to work on in any course,particularly for new-to-college, first generation and traditionally underserved populations ofstudents. This category includes outcomes such as being able to properly cite sources, being ableto layout calculation work and explain process, and being able to use scientific