Byrnes is a student at Harvey Mudd College, currently pursuing a BS in Mathematics. Ellie has an interest in doing work in STEM education and expects to graduate from in May of 2021.Dr. Laura Palucki Blake, Harvey Mudd College Laura Palucki Blake is the AVP for Institutional Research and Effectiveness at Harvey Mudd College, where her primary role is to coordinate data collection, interpretation and dissemination to support teach- ing and learning, planning and decision-making across the college.Matthew Spencer, Harvey Mudd College Matthew Spencer is an assistant professor at Harvey Mudd College. His research interests include experi- ential and hands-on learning, and integrating mechanical, chemical and quantum devices
build what that object would look like rotated similarly to the firstpair of objects. Completion of this room would warp them into the next room to continue theactivity. See Figure 3 for an overview of a rotation puzzle room.Figure 3. Overview of rotation puzzle room In order to train students in two dimensional to three-dimensional spatial reasoning, weset up “rooms” where students saw a 2d representation of an object on the “wall”. The “map,” soto speak, showed them where to place blocks, how many to stack on each space, and which sidesof the object were up, down, left, and right. Students obtained blocks and created the object in 3dspace following the plan they observed on the wall, although in harder challenges they wererequired to
include significant numbers of students who are first-in-family to enter college,veterans, Hispanic, and are from other nontraditional and underserved populations, gain exposureto a state-of-the-art characterization system and hone the skills to design experiments, analyzelarge data sets, develop pre- and post-image processing techniques, and apply and refine mathand programming skills.The future plans of this project include connecting with more industries such as pharmaceuticaland solid state electronics companies, and exploring additional real world problems that could besolved by using the FTIR Spectroscopic Imaging technique. Undergraduate and graduatestudents will be involved in hands-on research activities that will boost their knowledge
was an all-engineering veteran lunchgathering, where the students planned and invited veteran engineering students, currently not inthe Pathways project, to join them in a social and networking event.Career AwarenessCareer awareness, defined as “navigating job and scholarship applications, identifying suitableengineering careers, meeting with working engineers” [6] is a topic of discussion almost everyweek. Students commented that they have were surprised to learn of new jobs, such as bridgeinspectors, that showed them something they had never heard about before. Students were also 3 Fig. 1. Smithfield Foods, Inc. Headquarters Trip.Engineering IdentityEngineering identity
plans ● redirect efforts to create win-win opportunities for both organizations ● comfortably join large groups of strangers (e.g., staff meetings at schools) ● meet with many different people to discuss ideas ● communicate goals and progress to both organizations.One of the most significant examples of liaison work - in which a liaison increased equity ofSTEM outreach to less visited schools in the district - demonstrates how the combination of thecapabilities listed above can increase the effectiveness of partnerships between organizations.After collecting data to determine how schools were being differently served, the liaison helpedschool administrators determine that schools with the lowest levels of outreach were to
very proud to show them, letting first-hand experiencebuild enthusiasm for a career path enabling an independent and prosperous adult life. Observingbig and small engineering works raises interest, e.g., seeing the awesome scale of a 1,000 MWpower generator or watching a pipefitter annealing copper tubing by heating it to a glow andrapidly quenching in cold water. Hard copper magically becoming malleably soft. Today’s bestanalog are the robotics-mechatronics programs, which provide a limited bandwidth that ought tobe much broader. With appropriate planning and supervision, middle and high school agestudents holding interest in engineering need to experience more than science projects, and seereal things being made.Although the most significant
computer science with little to no background incomputing and lack of student participation in problem solving and group activities. This was mentionedby the instructor of CS 161 course in response to the external evaluator question on “Active LearningStrategy used in My Class - Most of the students did ignore my advice on working in groups (they werecomfortable working their own).”We are using flipped classroom and hands-on technology along with visual tool RAPTOR in CS 160and CS 161 courses this semester, and we plan to continue using these in subsequent semesters. We arealso in the process of developing custom material (Active learning, RAPTOR, and Java/C++programming) for these two courses. These materials will be available to students and
Spring 2016 semester, the author brainstormed variousalterations that can be done to the labs to further develop students’ understanding of conceptslearned in the course. A plan was put in motion to incorporate more laboratories to allowstudents more “hands-on” experiences. Additionally, it was decided to create a laboratoryhandbook, with pre-labs, for students to complete before performing laboratory testing. The goalwas to have the new labs and handbook ready for the Fall 2017 semester.Before the implementation of the VR enhanced laboratory experiments, students in AppliedStrength of Materials were taught how to perform the laboratory experiments via the“traditional” method. As can be seen in the flowchart in Figure 1, students were to print
-yeargraduation rates were higher for students who completed the research program than for studentswho did not. The MC REU program seems particularly helpful for students who start at aregional campus and then transfer to the University Park campus to finish their degrees.Although a small dataset, the 6-year graduation rate for research program participants showed apositive increase and exceeded the national average for students attending 4-year or 2-yearpostsecondary institutions [19]. We plan to continue to follow the later cohorts to confirm thisoutcome with more data.The data also show that the students who participated in the research program and thentransferred to the University Park campus, experienced a dip in their term and cumulative
other groups and instructors,and ultimately built four hunting cabins. The results of this paper were produced from the data gathered atthe end of this camp. The main objective of this study was to explore students’ perceptions toward thecamp and use their feedback and preferences in subsequence camps. The students’ perceptions are animportant input for the construction educator to plan accordingly and increase the quality of academicpreparation and the quantity of student enrollments. The survey aimed to consider factors that impactstudents’ perceptions before entering construction programs. Students expressed their expectation ofsalary and time on the job requirements. The reported numbers were close to the reality which eliminatesthe blind
vehicles on their own, students are better equipped to know ifsomething needs to be fixed during the competition and how to repair it quickly. The experiencemembers receive from working in teams without the constant help of a faculty member providesstudents with a chance to adapt to challenges they may face in their careers after graduation.EVP students are responsible for conducting extensive research and development to come upwith a purchasing plan for what they need to complete the project and are required to submit costand design reports to their advisors. Then Middle Tennessee State University faculty advisorsrequire students to design, develop, and manufacture approximately 70% of their materials in themachine shop. To develop their
-institutionalqualitative and longitudinal studies of minorities in engineering education. Our study isinvestigating the following overarching research questions: 1. Why do Black men and women choose and persist in, or leave, EE, CpE, and ME? 2. What are the academic trajectories of Black men and women in EE, CpE, and ME? 3. In what ways do these pathways vary by gender or institution? 4. What institutional policies and practices promote greater retention of Black engineering students?Major Activities for Year 2During Year 2 (March 2019 – February 2020), the project team has collaborated to accomplishthe research goals.Project Team MeetingsOur research team has been on a regular basis via telephone conference to plan, coordinate, anddiscuss
with the 4-input feature option.5. Implementation in classroomThe proposed artificial intelligence (AI) model can be used in various classroom and laboratorysettings with machine learning software packages for general engineering studies thanks mainlyto its versatility in modeling the procedures of forecasting any future events based on big data. Itwould be particularly beneficial to a student who attempts to learn how to predict future weatherevents for planning purposes in the AI approach. In a traditional approach, Ordinary LeastSquare (OLS) regression is one of the methods generally used for the prediction. By using themachine learning approach proposed in this paper, a student will learn the state-of-art machinelearning approach and
tallied in the BB grade center. Use a Resistor: 1) To buy a resubmission of an NSQ report. Note: each report be revised only once. E-mail regarding token use must be submitted by EOD (end-of-day, 11:59pm) the day following grade posting and revised reports are due three days after grades were posted, EOD. Example: If report grades are posted Monday, e-mail is due Tuesday EOD and report revision Thursday EOD. 2) To get a 24-hour extension on the lab report submission deadline. Note: two resistors can be redeemed for a 48-hour extension. You will have to specify the number of resistors you plan to use via e-mail the day before the report is due, by EOD. You cannot extend the same
participate in Optional Practical Training (OPT) after the completion of their program, and in some countries degree programs with substantial residential programs are viewed as preferred.We currently offer both options to students depending on their location. The main market for thisprogram is China (both options) and India (only 1+1 option).The courses offered via the Live Platform contain the same content as the respective courses offeredin the residential program. The only difference is that the course material for the Live Platformhas been gone through an instructional design process to include planned interactions between in-structor and students. Some of the residential courses have started to use the same course materialsas for the
Flipped Classroom’The Journal of Information Systems Education, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 7-11, 2013.[10] T. Koulopoulos and D. Keldsen, “Gen-Z effect: The six forces shaping the future of business.” Routledge, 2016.[11] J. Fromm and A. Read, “Marketing to Gen Z: The rules for reaching this vast, and very different, generation of influencers,” New York: AMACOM, 2018. [E-book] Available: https://www.worldcat.org/.[12] C. Seemiller and M. Grace, “Generation Z: A Century in the Making.” Routledge, 2018.[13] Institutional Planning and Research, “Enrollment and Demographics”, Feb. 2020. Accessed on Feb. 2020. [Online]. Available: https://ir.aa.ufl.edu/uffacts/enrollment-1/.
“actions” has been added to Criterion 4, beginningin this accreditation cycle (2020-2021) to recognize that continuous improvement has both input(results of assessment and evaluation) and output (actions).] For the remainder of this paper, wewill discuss each of the last three requirements of Criterion 4 by reviewing common problemsand suggesting simple processes for maximizing value of the effort spent.Assessment – Data Collection and Preparation FailuresIn a culture of assessment only, programs can spend inordinate time in data collection leading tono action plans for program improvement. As a result, considerable time is consumed inassessment with no improvement in student learning, that is, no added value. In thisenvironment, faculty consider
team High whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives 6. An ability to develop and conduct Low appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions 7. An ability to acquire and apply new Low knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies Table 1: Relation of course content to ABET Program OutcomesStudent Makers Skills and Course ReflectionWhile the majority of this paper is on the structure and content of the course, a one-question, pre-and post-survey relating to makerspace skills is included to initially reflect upon
theywill use in industry. They also struggle to increase the amount of knowledge their students learnwhile maintaining an academic plan of four years without increasing the amount of requiredsemester credit hours in order to graduate [1]. Digital logic design is a necessary topic forelectrical engineers and computer engineers and FPGA’s are an evolving technology with adiverse range of applications. By combining both these important topics into one course,students will be exposed to a great amount of important and useful information without the needto increase the number of credits required to earn their degree.There exists a fair amount of literature pertaining to the design of a digital logic courseincorporating field-programmable gate arrays
a STEM researchproject. National Science Foundation Middle/High School Student Attitudes Towards STEM (S-STEM) Survey [8] was used to assess the overall impact of the outreach program on the femalestudents’ self-confidence and motivation in pursuing future cross-disciplinary STEM careers.The results showed that the 21st Century skills related to critical-thinking, communication, andcollaboration was the section with the most radical improvement.Keywords: kinematics of mechanisms, protein kinematics, biomechanics, biochemistry, DNAnano-mechanismsIDEAL Online Summer Outreach Program Curriculum Plan and MethodsDuring the summer of 2019, mechanical engineering faculty and two undergraduate studentsfrom both NSM and ECS colleges offered a two
positive trends in high school mathematics scores, females are lesslikely than males to declare engineering as their major in college [4]. In 2006, about 15% of first-year female college students planned to declare a major in all STEM fields combined; but ifbiological and agricultural sciences are removed, only about 5% of first-year female collegestudents intend to major in a STEM area of physical sciences, including engineering [3]. At thesame time, more than a quarter (25%) of first-year male college students declared a physicalscience major [3]. So, if it’s not ability, why do more males pursue physical science and engineering whilefemales do not? The reasons are complex and intricately tied to culture, but research indicatesone primary
-making andconflict management practices thereby enhancing productivity. In addition, support systems forinclusivity and accountability such as the responsibility matrix, team building ice breakers oractivities, and action items trackers facilitated trust management and relationship building [24].Furthermore, team management artefacts such as project schedule(s), task list(s), meeting notes,procurement and budget tracker(s) supported students’ efficient time management practices.While the project schedule facilitated planning of design project activities, the task listsfacilitated work transparency; meeting notes enabled progress tracking of tasks, and theprocurement tracker allowed for cost transparency of design project purchases. The
weekly grades during the course, including the final course grade. • Answers to the end of module survey.We are planning to study various correlations between the answers provided in the survey andthe course activity.ConclusionThis paper presents work in progress, describing in detail a proposed intervention for includingthe selection of a professional role model in the curriculum of a given discipline. A pilotexperiment is under way, and we will have partial results available during the conference.Our long-term goal is to show that selecting a professional role model and analyzing it from thestudents’ own perspective will increase student identification with the domain of study, theirmotivation and engagement and will contribute to
reasons behind thisstudy’s findings.Furthermore, given that research-informed teaching is known to be effective in improving thequality of teaching, it is important to include the findings of practical studies, like this research,in the sustainable construction course contents. The implications of these findings for sustainableconstruction education are significant. Incorporating the insights gained from this research intosustainable construction courses can enhance students' understanding of the practical challengesand opportunities associated with achieving LEED certification. For example, educators can usethe study's results to illustrate the importance of energy efficiency and sustainable sitedevelopment in project planning and design. By
insight into whatentrepreneurial mindset is. This could then broaden the scope of how impactful the computer scientistsand engineers are on society. Comprehension questions are better answered when the motivation behindthe research is understood. If a specific set of resources is provided to the professors to help in theirunderstanding of the research, they are in turn equipped for the execution of relaying instructions.Asking students to reflect about how their profession creates value allows them to explore importantaspects of the entrepreneurial mindset. For future studies we plan to revisit the concept mapping activityafter the students have been exposed to EM activities. Changes in the concept maps over time will help usunderstand the best
introduced include (1) every idea has the potential to contribute to apositive outcome, (2) questioning an idea can provide valuable insight, and (3) applying thebrake can be productive. Students practiced the three attitudes using role play activities. Therewere no additional formal reinforcements though there may have been further discussions withinstructors during the course [6]. Specific intervention materials can be obtained fromEngineering Unleashed KEEN Card #3679. Freshman design students were surveyed at the endof their class, and we plan to survey them again as they progress through capstone design.In addition to this direct teaching of psychological safety, leadership and teamwork skilldevelopment are threads throughout our curriculum. In
-Canada survey on engineering career paths and EDIIn partnership with Engineers Canada, Troost ILead conducted a survey with engineeringgraduates across Canada in late 2022. As part of our recruitment strategy, we invited allprovincial and territorial regulators of professional engineers to an informational session aboutour planned survey on engineering career paths. In particular, we reached out to each regulator’srepresentative on the ‘30 x 30’ campaign, which has a goal to increase the percentage of womenamong all newly licensed engineers to 30 per cent by the year 2030 [27]. As a result, eight of theregulatory bodies and one provincial engineering advocacy organization agreed to support ourparticipant recruitment efforts (e.g., Linking to our
partis beneficial for engineering fields such as aerospace and automotive where less weight meansgreater stability and speeds. All material has a failure point, so it is good to plan for how thematerial will fail and how that failure can affect the overall part. Honeycomb infill will collapseon itself, but will not fracture. This means the part can still hold the force applied to it. It seems that harder and stronger materials solidify faster when being 3D printed. Thiscan cause a rough surface finish. No matter what material is used, when 3D printing, surfaceroughness will be noticeable. A tradeoff for a better surface finish, if to reduce the strength of thepart by using ABS.Conclusion The results from the data can be useful in
able to transfer back to 4-year institutions and complete a degree. The samecase study question will be used for consistency. It will be interesting to see if reverse transferstudents enrolled in the same college but not involved in a programmatic approach would feelthe same way. These two populations should have the same demographics to eliminate thedifferences in demographics.To further our research, we will also conduct a comprehensive survey among reverse transferstudents in the college to understand their experiences, challenges, and aspirations. The aim is tofurther explore the identified themes across a larger demographic by advancing towards a largerquantitative investigation [18]. Our plan involves conducting consequential interviews