., psychic assumptions reassessment of values and self- 4 Recognition that one’s discontent and the process of reflection transformation are shared and that others have negotiated a similar change 5 Exploration of options for new roles, relationships, and actions 6 Planning of a course of action Affirming & Connecting, i.e., shifted 7 Acquisition of knowledge and skills for perspective that allows one to cope implementing one’s plan with those situations more easily in 8 Provisional trying new roles the future 9 Building competence and self-confidence in new roles
direct reflection of unfavorable perceptions and stigmas that have plagued thefield of Computing for some time as it pertains to race and ethnicity [24]. There have beeninitiatives by tech companies [27, 30], who are making efforts to address this issue aroundretention, especially with underrepresented minorities. Likewise, tech companies have begunworking closely with minority-serving institutions in efforts to provide insight on the type ofcomputational skills and programming proficiency a student (or prospective employee) mustpossess for success in these sectors [11, 22, 33]. One anecdotal and common insight from theirobservations concerns a candidate’s ability to exhibit proficient critical thinking skills to solveproblems through technical
Food - emotions - narrative mapping Entertainment Project Short reflection of personal narrative that explains 2 Project: Personal Narratives mapping Explore the physical and digital material involved in 3 Project: Medium the mapping 4 Project: Methodology Identify, frame an experience, and develop a workflow Identify tools and material needed to re-create 5 Project: Design tools & material experience 6 Project: Prototype Prototype a
contentauthored by graduate students with subject matter knowledge in Robotics. We discuss ourprocess for reviewing each chapter of the OER textbook, including readings to prompt studentthought and reflection, and how we leverage the Universal Design for Learning (UDL)Guidelines [6] for examining the chapters for learner-centeredness. We highlight the benefits ofincluding students in creating learning materials, such as how students know what works inteaching and learning and what falls short. As such, incorporating student feedback can infusematerials with learner-centered elements and provide opportunities to improve howtextbook-based OER presents information, perspectives, and ways of thinking about the subjectmatter in ways that traditional textbooks
receiving social and cultural capital 3. To engage with extant campus programming that allows participants to reflect, and meaningfully address, factors that contribute to STEM persistence across STEM disciplines. a. Participating faculty have opportunities to participate in campus-wide programming, based on their individual interest, to gain a stronger understanding about the experience of students from minoritized populations to enhance their understanding, and utility, of the content they learn in the professional development experience, and to satisfy their elective requirement. b. To create a sustainable
as staying engaged andmeeting deadlines, and changes in the overall organization of the project, such as time forreflection and clearer connections between the team activities and the learning module they werecreating. They also wished they had a better understanding of the project at the beginning.Based on what we learned during the first year of the project, we made changes to theorganization of the project to better explain its goals. We also addressed challenges about anddesires to have more opportunities for improving academic writing, gaining technicalknowledge, and reflecting on the process. Overall, we worked to support teams through the co-creation process by providing better scaffolds. The benefits of scaffolds are addressed in
approach to a technique, new technologies or new treatment.During the Spring of the third year, medical students research the problem identified during theirclinical rotations, propose a solution, and then recruit and lead a cross-disciplinary team thatincludes bioengineering students and business student consultants, to develop a new prototype orprocess with the goal of changing the practice of medicine and improving patient outcomes. In thefollowing Fall semester, medical students deliver 5-minute pitches to recruit engineering MEngand undergraduate students to the project.Formation of Engineering Capstone ExperienceThe MEng and undergraduate capstone courses meet together to facilitate teamwork during openlab times and reflection on lecture
Summer Observe project management Project Giving back MEP Ambassador Sophomore ABE 495 RS Summer experience reflection Advanced learning skills Outreach to PreK-12 students (Program closed after Recruitment Year Soph. Seminar Encourage society involvement 1st cohort) Building/ Strengthening Web Mentoring by
the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Her role in the College of Engineering at UNL is to lead the disciplinary-based education research ini- tiative, establishing a cadre of engineering education research faculty in the engineering departments and creating a graduate program. Her research focuses on the development, implementation, and assessment of modeling and design activities with authentic engineering contexts; the design and implementation of learning objective-based grading for transparent and fair assessment; and the integration of reflection to develop self-directed learners.Mrs. Katie Mowat, University of Nebraska, Lincoln I am an engineer who loves to work with people, learn about new ideas and
] focuses on assessing student learning and experience to ascertainwhether students have acquired the skills, knowledge, and competencies related to their programof study. The ET department faculty use a combination of direct and indirect methods forassessment and evaluation of the SOs. The results and findings of these evaluations aresystematically utilized as input for the program’s CI actions[1], [13]. Direct methods requirestudents to exhibit their knowledge and skills as they respond to the instrument itself. Objectivetests, projects, laboratory work, presentations, and classroom assignments all meet this criterion[14]. Indirect methods such as surveys and interviews require students to reflect on their learningrather than to display it [12
both chromebooks and Ipads that wereprovided by the research team. The group were split in half to ensure less issues with internetconnectivity, where one group worked on the name tag activity while the other world onanswering the engineering question. Week three consisted of a set of reflection questions intended to help youth identifyproblems they may want to solve by the end of the project workshop. We did this using anotherset of poster boards ideation prompts. The first board prompted youth to walk through their dailyroutine and categorize into six different time periods: waking up, morning, noon, late afternoon,night, and bedtime. Youth were encouraged to add in any parts of their routine for every part ofthe day. Research team
semester with the overall goal ofdecomposing the project into functional modules. In the spring modules are built and tested,integrated, iterated, then the project finally undergoes an acceptance test. While the V-model isintuitive for those with design experience, as a project management model it does not accuratelythe reflect the actual and iterative work of design so it needs to be implemented flexibly and withsignificant scaffolding.Because capstone courses can be very time-intensive for faculty, the instructors have developed asignificant amount of scaffolding over time using an action-based research approach [4] (seenext section). This has resulted in a “hands-off” approach where students have responsibility formost project decisions. While
describe the family life of their co-workeror employer as part of their answer. This background information benefits the interviewer as itwill help frame the context and dynamics the participant had to contend with. However, thisinformation would be omitted from the final narrative as this background is unnecessary for thereader. It is important to remember that although this information would not be included in thefinal constructed narrative, its influence persists through the remainder of the data collection andinterpretation.Smoothing is inherently an iterative and reflective process that researchers often refine throughexperience [11]. Most literature on narrative methods typically discusses the philosophicalunderpinnings of narrative analysis
organize the divisionsare not exclusive. The reflect differences in emphasis rather than the existence of separateknowledge domains.1 The number of divisions vs. constituent committees and interest groups seems to fluctuate based on the context inwhich the list is generated (ASEE website vs. PEER). By some counts, there are 55 divisions. In any case, theproportion of “Engineering and. . .” divisions remains essentially the same. 2 This paper focuses on four “Engineering and. . .”divisions that explicitly connectengineering with expertise that is relevant to engineers but not typically required in engineeringeducation
classesAbstractIn this evidence-based practice paper, we report on peer oral exams, a cross between oral examsand peer assessment, as implemented in a high-enrollment undergraduate computerprogramming course for engineers. The idea was to leverage the educational andimplementational advantages of both evidence-based approaches simultaneously. Oral exams,for instance, have been argued to promote conceptual understanding, self-reflection,communication competency, and professional identity formation in students – but theirdeployment in large classes is resource-demanding and nontrivial, stifling their broader adoption.Peer assessment, on the other hand, is highly scalable and affords students many potentialeducational benefits of its own, including the
participated in the aforementionedsummer program are granted a degree of autonomy in how they approach teamwork in theircourses and chose to implement the equitable teaming tools from the Summer 2022 workshop tovarious degrees in their classes in the Fall 2022 semester. The full list of available teaming toolsincluded: 1) pre-readings related to the importance of diversity on teams, 2) individual assetmaps encouraging students to explore how their own backgrounds could be valuable and appliedin the course, 3) team asset charts designed to facilitate a breakdown of work for teamassignments in a way that draws upon the diverse backgrounds of all team members, and 4) teamprocessing documents guiding students through reflective questions regarding their
teammembers’ expertise as well as their high level of social perceptiveness, resulting in an increase ofparticipation and a decrease in biases amongst team members [4]. Women working in teams alsodemonstrate higher interactive and co-operative work styles that improve a team’s overallprocesses and management skills. Garcia et al. [5]and Ostergaard et al. [6] found an increase indiverse knowledge and perspectives that originated from different career paths due to thecomposition of gender-diverse teams.Some studies also consider that diversity could create discomfort in teams because social identitypredicts that the difference in knowledge, and experience can make communication difficult andincrease competitiveness [6]. This may be reflected in
, I feel it is valuable to disclose my position as an author, including the identities I hold,the privileges I am afforded, and the perspective I bring to understanding engineering researchculture. I am a Black, cisgender man, and a Ph.D. student studying engineering education. I amalso a recipient of a stipend from the National Science Foundation (NSF), so I am a directbeneficiary of the engineering research “culture,” or system as it stands. This work-in-progresspaper is directly tied to my own experience and the experiences of colleagues that are alsoengaging in engineering research culture. Through rich conversations and reflection about thespaces in which engineering researchers operate, I began to question the underlying valuesystems
that welcomes any studentto use it for project work, studying, collaborating, or meeting with fellow students. It is staffedmostly by student interns; between 8 and 12 students each semester get experience in a workatmosphere that resembles a small prototype shop. They maintain and troubleshoot equipment,work with “clients”, enforce safety, run workshops, develop equipment expertise, and assist withthe long-term development of the lab mission and goal fulfillment.Need for Change in Engineering Design GraphicsEngineering Design Graphics has many concepts that can be dry and discourage freshmanengineering students from persisting when taught with a theoretical focus. This is reflected inthe historically high attrition rate observed for this
arevaluable resource, it is seldom that more than a fraction of the existing knowledge in a field isput into writing” (p. 141). Hence, this research will attempt seek information about what studentsare learning as it relates to the SLOs and attempt to categorize the perspectives of what studentsare learning during an internship within Bloom’s taxonomy.Students were asked within the student learning management system to reflect on several guidedquestions as they relate to the SLOs. The following list of questions were used to identify thedata as it related to the SLOs as identified within eight different modules. Each of the specificquestions are specific to Bloom’s taxonomy and follow a sequence of deeper learning as thestudents progress through
instructional decision making in a middle school informalengineering summer program; this research is intended to highlight ways in which middle schooleducators in informal science institutions and classroom settings might facilitate engineeringknowledge, skills, and practices. This is in response to recent advances in precollege science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The evolving engineeringeducation landscape has necessitated new ways of teaching and learning that reflect rapidtechnological advances in the global economy. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)have ushered in an era of STEM integration in K-12 science in the U.S. [1]. These standards,based upon A Framework for K-12 Science Education [2], proposed a
development can be developed to supportmore inclusive practices in engineering. According to Grayson [34], engineering education in the United States was founded inthe military to address a pressing need for surveying and construction skills. By World War II,engineering schools in the US enrolled a large number of men and trained them in technicalskills needed for the war. There were very few women or people of color enrolled in engineeringschools, particularly since the military was only composed of White men during this time period.These historical exclusionary roots contributed to the formation of an engineering culture thatwas reflected in its disciplinary norms. Tonso’s [35] work in engineering classrooms in the1990s revealed how
. • Campus life offered by the department is very stimulating. • If I am/were going to college next year, I would continue with this department. • There’s a real sense of community here. 2. Reflection Survey. Besides the above survey, we also created another open-ended anonymous survey with the following reflection questions to gain deeper insight into students’ experiences in the departmental learning community. • Do you find the presentations/workshops conducted by the ExCITE Program students helpful? Why or why not? If helpful, in what ways? If not, please explain why. • How did participating (or not participating) in the ACM and ACM-W club meetings/activities (including the take-apart
, business, and political science [2]. In EER, CIhas been used in this way to improve the design of measures of many topics, includingprofessional skills development [3], social capital resources [4], and student responses toinstructional strategies [5].Cognitive interviewing requires participants to think aloud while completing a task. Drawingfrom reviews of the method, we here define thinking aloud as “requesting participants toopenly reflect on their answers to survey questions and the processes by which they reachthose answers, with limited interviewer interaction.” [1], [6], [7]. CI interviewers need notnecessarily follow a uniform format; these researchers may choose to engage with participantsvia concurrent probing, where questions are asked
members within the same team. Perhaps most of the time, the student teamsfunction just fine. Yet instructors might actively or passively notice the existence ofdysfunctional teams, where team dynamics were impaired, and team members developednegative attitudes towards one another [4-5]. Furthermore, in other situations, social loafingmight exist within student teams but sometimes hardly get instructors’ attention [6]. When suchsituations happen, the benefits of cooperative learning are compromised and at risk [7]. Scholars and practitioners have proposed ways of trainings to support student team success.Using Goal-Role-Process-Interpersonal-Relationship models, students wrote memos to reflect ontheir team dynamics and development [8]. Students
’ understandingof the overall module to see whether they meet the module objectives and a survey withopen-ended questions to help students reflect on their learning and experiences with the module,the second of which we discuss in more detail in the next section. Below are example quizquestions, with the correct answer choice italicized, relating to each of our three learningobjectives. • Question related to Objective 1: One student gives work to another, knowing that the student is going to copy the work directly and submit it for credit. Who has committed an academic violation? Answer choices (choose one): (1) Both the student that copied and the student that provided the material. (2) The student that provided the material. (3
education that emphasizesculminating skills in lieu of a list of courses would provide a better alignment between professionalpractice skills and undergraduate education [9, 10]. Research also discusses the role of internalreflective conversations in creating effective designers. Literature has shown that accomplisheddesigners reflect on their design experiences to improve their future work and practicedengineering designers thoroughly engage in problem setting and reflective conversations [11-13].Conversation during engineering design is not only important in internal reflective conversationsbut also in external communications with colleagues and stakeholders to successfully advocate fora solution. Researchers have examined how engineering design
). Project Leader (1987-92). Principal Researcher (1992-95). Specialty Products Business Leader (1995-99)Hseen BaledMichael McMahon ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Team Building Games to Reinforce the Training of Chemical Engineering Students in Team Skills Based on Collaboration LeadershipIntroductionTeam building games or activities are popular at work [1] - [3], and college [4]. Team games arecreative activities that simulate team performance at relatively simple and engaging tasks butoffering practice and reflections to apply to real job situations. They can be used when starting anew team project or sometimes later to address conflicts, to encourage positive attitudes, or tounveil new
aremore effective when analyzing their work for potential improvements. Finally, school instructorsbenefit from teamwork.The action research process begins by identifying issues before developing an iterative actionplan with strategies for pursuing optimal practice. The cyclical action research processcomprises four key phases: contemplation, planning, action, observation, and reflection [20].The authors identified five key stages of conducting an action research project. These includeidentifying a problem area, collecting relevant data, analyzing the data, acting on the evidence,and evaluating the results. Although these procedures may appear like everyday inquiry andresearch processes, the most critical aspect of action research is who
, the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), is a dynamic in- terdisciplinary team that brings together professors, graduate, and undergraduate students from engineer- ing, art, educational psychology, and social work in the context of fundamental educational research. Dr. Walther’s research program spans interpretive research methodologies in engineering education, the pro- fessional formation of engineers, the role of empathy and reflection in engineering learning, and student development in interdisciplinary and interprofessional spaces. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023