, consistency of contracts and recognizes valuable contributions • Employ an open loop evaluation system that allows ongoing tracking, [12] analysis, communication and synthesis and communication of findings for continuous improvement of the faculty and the institution • Require more equitable scrutiny and evaluation among various faculty [13] groups to communicate the need for quality irrespective of faculty status •Allow time for active learning for adjunct faculty including reflection, [12] writing and self-improvement audits College Communication • Integrate the use of two way communication platforms and powerful [4] technological tools into processes to help build rapport
findings, andcontinuously interacting between data and analysis [19]. We made this methodological decisionbecause our goal was to better understand students’ perceptions of what engineering is by theway they draw their response to the question.A typical activity to help the students understand their perceptions of the engineering disciplineis to ask them “What is engineering?” However, instructors have been frustrated by the lack ofdepth in students’ responses. We used a different approach to explore students’ perceptions ofthe engineering discipline by taking an arts-informed methodology; instead of writing down theirperceptions or talking with a peer, students are first asked to draw the response to the question“What is engineering?” Arts
looking up online resources to help me in writing the program in multiple test stages.” Electrical Active Learning/Content/Tool Usage: “We learned more about basic circuit components Circuits such as integrators, op-amps, and high/low pass filters. We also gained hands-on experience through designing some of these newly learned components on a breadboard and verifying their uses through an oscilloscope.” Active Learning/Tool Usage/Collaborative: “My team and I built three different Inverting Amplifier using electronic components and a SparkFun breadboard and tested the
advertising in the event program. In this way, Professional Ethics LIVE! affordsthese local and regional firms a way to publicly showcase their commitment to professionalismand ethics, both for their employees and their professional peers and colleagues. From the outset, Professional Ethics LIVE! was framed as a relationship between TexasTech University engineering students, faculty and the local design professional community topromote and satisfy the needs of all partners. Tech TSPE student members invest sweat equitynecessary to host the event. In exchange for publicity, NIEE has provided technical content (itseducational materials) and expertise (its Deputy Director). Production costs are shared betweenTech TSPE and South Plains TSPE, with
interrelated critical concepts for the construction industry. Knowledge management refers to the creation of a thriving work and learning environment that fosters the continuous creation, aggregation, use and re-use of both organizational and personal knowledge in the pursuit of new business value. (Anumba, C. et al 2005). Best practices are defined as the policy, systems and procedures that, at any given time, are generally regarded by peers as the practice that delivers optimal outcome, such that they are worthy of adoption (The Constructor n.d). Figure 1. Vent diagram representation of the CDMI PillarsIn addition to the three pillars described above the following considerations survey design
student devotes to the academicexperience, the more that student will learn. Astin argued that involvement, or the investment ofphysical and psychological energy towards an experience, occurs on a continuum and has bothquantitative (e.g. time on task) and qualitative (e.g. useful study strategies) features [15]. Astinand Pace’s work is the basis for the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) whichcollects five categories of information about students: participation in educationally purposefulactivities (e.g. interacting with faculty or peers), what institutions require of them (e.g. amount ofreading or writing), perceptions of features of the environment related to academic success,demographic information (e.g. gender, race, socioeconomic
Student Design Essay Award”.Dr. Zhenjun Ming, University of Oklahoma Zhenjun Ming is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engi- neering of University of Oklahoma. He is working with Professor Farrokh Mistree and Professor Janet K. Allen at the Systems Realization Laboratory @ OU. His research interest is to create knowledge-based decision support methods and tools to facilitate designers in the design of engineered systems. Zhenjun has published more than ten peer-reviewed research papers and will publish a Springer Monograph in 2021. His education focus is to create an environment for students to learn by reflecting on doing.Prof. Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma Zahed
organizes, coordinates Electrical and Electronic Lab courses for the college.Dr. QINANG HU, Oklahoma State University Dr. Hu is an assistant professor of practice at Oklahoma State University. He is responsible for instructing hands-on lab courses in material sciences and solid mechanics. His areas of interest include concrete durability, X-ray microanalysis, and cement hydration mechanism. He has published peer-review articles in Concrete and Cement Research, Construction and Building Material, Fuel, Acta Materia, ACI structural Journal and etc. He is a member of American Concrete Institute and American Ceramic Society. He also serves as a reviewer in Construction and Building Material.Dr. Toni Ivey, Oklahoma State
Society for Engineering Education, 2020 “Adversary or Ally”: Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Perceptions of FacultyAbstractThis research paper examines students’ perceptions of faculty and how it influences their identitytrajectory. First-year students enter undergraduate engineering education with rich stories of howthey came to choose engineering as a career pathway. Over time, the culture of engineering andnetwork of peers, faculty members, and professionals shape students' stories and identitytrajectories. How students “cast” faculty members in their story, often as helpful or hurtful actors,have implications for their identity trajectory, success, and, ultimately, retention in engineering. Inthis
Paper ID #28865Outcome-Based (Engineering) Education (OBE): International AccreditationPracticesProf. Junaid Qadir, Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan Junaid Qadir is an Associate Professor at the Information Technology University (ITU)—Punjab, Lahore since December 2015, where he directs the ICTD; Human Development; Systems; Big Data Analytics; Networks (IHSAN) Research Lab. His primary research interests are in the areas of computer systems and networking, applied machine learning, using ICT for development (ICT4D); and engineering education. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers
creative arts interventions (e.g.creative writing and drama), patient interviews, communication and interpersonal skills training,and experiential learning, with the latter three having the most pronounced impact on empathydevelopment [60], [61]. Integrating peer-support, structured self-reflection, and course-basedcommunity service has also been shown to prevent the empathy decline that typically occursduring medical training [62].An example of service-learning as a tool for teaching empathy is “Project for Sharing” whereinstudents work with stakeholders to create devices for underserved community members [56].Student projects included building an infant/child location detector for blind parents and asimple-to-use communication device for deaf
40 peer-reviewed papers, co-author of Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (Morgan and Claypool, 2010), and editor of Sociotechnical Communication in Engineering (Routledge, 2014). In 2016, Dr. Leydens won the Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education Award from the National Academy of Engineering, along with CSM colleagues Juan C. Lucena and Kathryn Johnson, for a cross-disciplinary suite of courses that enact macroethics by making social justice visible in engineering education. In 2017, he and two co-authors won the Best Paper Award in the Minorities in Engineering Division at the Amer- ican Society for Engineering Education annual conference. Dr. Leydens’ recent research, with co-author Juan C
the University of Nebraska. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Virginia and her research focuses on the fate and transport of biologically-active organic contaminants in agricultural systems and water reuse in agriculture. She is a faculty fellow of the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska and maintains a courtesy appointment in the Department of Environmental, Occupational and Agricultural Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She has published over 95 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters, was awarded an NSF CAREER award in 2012, and in 2015 was a member of a team receiving the Grand Prize for University Research
thetraditions from which researchers have framed their studies. We identified twelve studies usingsearch terms such as “agency” and “engineering education” in available databases (EducationResources Information Center, Education, and Education Full Text) and ASEE PEER documentrepository. Most studies discussed are in the context of the United States; however, two studiesare within a South African context, and one is in a Norwegian context. Studies focused on K-12engineering education, and early career engineers were excluded based on the scope of this paperto synthesize the literature for undergraduate engineering education. We also found that thesestudies used both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Once we identified studies thatused
than a retrospective analysis in terms of absolutes.This is the same in our case, where students are introduced to professional ethics in readings andassignments in a course required in their first or second year of undergraduate engineeringeducation. This course is an application overview that uses case studies that uses what could beconsidered obvious cases of professional misconduct and breach of due-diligence expectations.Students review one or more of the cases (often one of those listed above) and write a brief essaydescribing the professional ethical breaches demonstrated in that case. One faculty memberdescribed that this exercise “...is really pretty easy… the case study gives a long view that makesthe overall problems apparent even
. Thispaper resulted from the Fourth Future of Mechatronics and Robotics Education (FoMRE)Workshop held September 27-28, 2019 at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield,Michigan. This workshop was the final in a series of National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported academic and industrial workshops in a project that aims to define and promote theconcept of MRE as a distinct engineering discipline, build a community of MRE educators, andpromote diversity and inclusivity within the MRE community [2]. The project leaders write: “Our vision is that MRE will become one of the most impactful disciplines of engineering; attracting diverse and innovative students, graduating professional engineers who will design, develop, and
, stereotype threat, andfeelings of isolation, which can undermine their confidence and engender a fixed mindset [2][3].Such gatherings inspire women that they can be successful in pursing satisfying careers in atraditionally male-dominated field [4]. They boost women’s confidence, help them buildnetworks of peers and mentors to help them navigate difficult situations, and encourage them toassume leadership roles in changing the face of computing and creating transformativetechnologies [5][6]. Although not as well known as GHC, the ACM Richard Tapia Celebrationof Diversity in Computing (often just called “Tapia”) serves similar goals as GHC but for allunderrepresented minorities in computing regardless of gender.1 Tapia highlights the critical
custom block. In Scratch, the custom block construct reifies procedural abstraction; it mimicsthe functionality of a procedure in text-based languages, having a unique name, parameters, and abody of statements. We discovered that not only could absolute beginners be effectively taught areal software quality concept (i.e., code duplication), but they were quite receptive and apprecia-tive of this knowledge. The majority of the study participants showed an inclination to keep usingautomated quality improvement tools in their future programming pursuits. This discovery is animportant contribution to the understanding of the mindset of introductory learners, with respectto their attitude toward not only learning how to write code, but how to do it
strategies she used to approach conflict resolution. This instructorengagement successfully encouraged the students to reflect on their own past experiences andrelate the theoretical concepts to real-world scenarios. One example of this was demonstrated atthe end of the ENV/GEO session when a student approached the facilitators to share a previousconflict experience and to ask for feedback and strategies to try in the case of a similar conflictoccurring in the future.6. Qualitative resultsIndividual students were asked to write a 5-10 page long reflection report at the end of the term,looking back at their course project. These reports were graded to ensure they were takenseriously, with grades focused on completion, insight, and grammar/clarity1
.” All personal demandswere measured on a 5-point Likert-type scale, where 1 = Strongly Disagree and 5 = StronglyAgree. School resources. School resources were measured with three variables comprised of 13total items. The school resources were the frequency with which students used administrative,campus, and people resources. For example, an administrative resource was using the financial aidoffice, a campus resource was using the University’s writing center, and a people resource wasusing peer tutors or faculty mentors. All school resources were measured in terms of utilizationusing a 5-point frequency scale, where 1 = Never and 5 = Frequently if not always. Outcomes. In addition to personal / school demands and resources
Engineer and has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters. Her expertise area include food and bioprocess engineering, biofuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass, and reaction engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Design and Implementation of Collaborative Problem- Based Learning Laboratory Modules for Engineering and Non-Engineering StudentsMotivation and BackgroundProblem-based learning (PBL), which originated in the 1960s for professional training ofphysicians for medical practice, is now extensively practiced in various science, technology
on interpreting the attemptsof students to write something meaningful regarding the approach to solving a problem of thistype.The opposite approach is used in the SMART Assessment model, where the expectation is thatmost students (those earning a grade of C or better) should be capable of earning at least 80% ofthe available points on the exam by solving most of the problems completely and correctly,according to the rubric in Table 1. The other 20% (or so) of the credit can be reserved for whatwe call “challenge problems,” which require a more complicated solution process involvingmultiple steps and multiple concepts. But even for the challenge problems, a complete andcorrect solution is required to receive credit.When the grading rubric is
to ensure that the students watch the videos prior to coming to class, and second, toidentify any conceptual challenges being faced by the students. The in-class activities consisted ofproblem-solving sessions that were based on the concept of the pre-class videos. These problems weredesigned to have a real-life application flavor. The problem-solving sessions were also collaborativeto promote peer learning. In-class quizzes were also administered as a formative assessment tool.Other active-learning opportunities included Jeopardy-style games to engage students. Students werealso asked to share and explain their solution to the word problem on the white board. So, studentshad the opportunity to enhance their communication skills. Exams on
serves approximately 9,000 students in grades K-12, 61% of whomare eligible for the National School Lunch Program. About 40% of graduating seniors go on toattend a 4-year institution of higher learning while 42% attend a 2-year college, and 57.6% enterthe workforce. Less than 2% enter the military. As a whole, the district falls well below theeducational standard measured by state testing, performing better than only about 32% ofdistricts statewide. The middle school, and three of the seven area elementary schools areidentified by the U.S. Department of Education as Title I schools requiring additional resourcesto allow students of low socio-economic to meet educational benchmarks at the same rate astheir wealthier peers. 100% of the roughly
students then wrote programs so that the robot would locate a flashlight beamand move towards it, follow the lines printed on poster paper, and navigate through a maze.Tutorials were provided to explain the concepts of a control system and how to program aproportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller for the DC motors of the robots as studentsbegan writing the project code. Several applications of optical sensing, PWM, and PIDcontrollers were described during discussions with the students.On Fridays, student teams demonstrated the projects that they had completed during the week.These were outdoor activities as the campus was closed on Fridays during the summer. Afarewell luncheon with all of the faculty and student mentors was held after the
of CE 4200 was atime period when our CE students’ performance on the NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering(FE) Exam was inexplicably low for certain topics. CE students were responsible for taking a 1-hour FE review course, but NCEES topic-level data [7] at the time indicated that Texas Techstudents were performing surprisingly below students at peer universities on certain subjects forwhich they had received instruction and were expected to know the content. CE 4200 offered anopportunity to provide focused re-learning for these particular topics. Further, CE 4200 provideda natural way to formally introduce the FE Exam to our students at an appropriate time in theirprogram, to explain the CE Department’s philosophy on engineering licensure, and
Paper ID #31275Challenges in a Freshman General Education ClassDr. Michelle Maher , University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Michelle Maher explores student research, teaching, and disciplinary writing skill development and higher education access and equity issues.Miss Kathleen O’Shea, University of Missouri - Kansas CityDr. Jacob M Marszalek, University of Missouri-Kansas City Education: Dr. Marszalek received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Statistics and Measurement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. Teaching: Dr. Marszalek teaches undergraduate quantitative statistics and graduate courses in
over time. We engaged in peer scrutiny of our findings witheach graduate coordinator to ensure trustworthiness in our work [20]. We then propose a modelof STEAM service-learning efforts synthesized from these findings.Part I. Findings from reflective accountsConceptualizing leadershipConsideration. Graduate outreach coordinators held different definitions of their responsibilitiesas an outreach leader. Some viewed the role as strategic and established foundational pieces ofthe program or ways they could extend and grow the program during their leadership tenure. Onthe other end of the spectrum, some graduate coordinators were more executional in theirapproach and focused on the work they would do with undergraduate students and
Summer Research Program 2018During the first year’s REU program, the students were given tasks to find and read relevantliterature and software tutorials, to write scripts in R on machine learning algorithms, and to writea script for basic algorithms in Python to control smart cars.Although not defined formally as designed activities, the students’ projects aimed to developcyber-attack, detection, and mitigation models on transportation networks for connected andautonomous vehicles. Tasks contained methods to be applied such as attack tree modeling(graphical) and the development of traffic and communication simulations. These tasks included: 1. Students used ARC-IT architecture (i.e. connected vehicles, (U.S. DOT, 2018)) to import defined
color that was clear to read, removing any uncertainties arising from interpreting variations in instructor/grader hand-writing; and ▪ Modify comments and point deductions digitally across the entire set of student submissions without any whiteouts or cross-outs, limiting confusion on any changes.The other advantages students may have recognized in the quantitative survey responses are thatin returning group activities each student received a graded electronic copy to their OneDrivefolder, and that all graded assignments could be easily accessed via a mobile device for studyingfor ARCE 212 and would remain available for reference during subsequent academic quarters.Though there are a number of benefits of using Bluebeam for