program and unique approaches relative tosimilar programs at peer institutions. We seek a broad systems perspective on addressingenvironmental issues, with a focus on ecological interactions and resilient designs that take intoaccount complexity and connectivity between systems. In the undergraduate curriculum, thisphilosophy drives the early focus on systems thinking and systems understanding and leads tothe inclusion of significant course requirements in ecology, sustainability, and industrial ecology.These course requirements are in addition to those typically found in Environmental Engineeringprograms at peer institutions. A complete list of the program objectives, student outcomes anddetails about the EEE degree requirements are included in
had immediate access to many resources (peers, TAs, instructors, spaces) to one wherestudents still had the opportunity to share in the same course resources, but did so to a lesser anddifferent extent than in Y1. In other words, as the larger Y2 course moves more toward aninstitutionalized, standard, more factory-like model, we note the tradeoff in losing some of thebenefits that existed in the smaller implementation of the course as well as some surprising gains.As the size of the Y2 pilot is more realistic for any first-year course at a large public university,we share our lessons learned in the hopes of helping other designers of first-year programsponder the consequences of scaling up any course to fit the standard scale of larger
University, IN, USA. She also holds an M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a B.S. in Astronomy and Meteorology from Kyungpook National University, South Korea. Her work centers on elementary, secondary, and postsecondary engineering education research as a psychometrician, data analyst, and program evaluator with research interests in spatial ability, STEAM education, workplace climate, and research synthesis with a particular focus on meta-analysis. She has developed, validated, revised, and copyrighted several instruments beneficial for STEM education research and practice. Dr. Yoon has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and served as a journal reviewer in engineering
Paper ID #33453Migrator Stories in an Aerospace Engineering ProgramDr. Devayan D. Bir, Loras College Prior to teaching at Loras College, Devayan pursued his doctorate in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University and has worked as a Computer Aided Analyst in India. He earned his B.E. in Aeronautical Engineering, and has been passionate about Aerospace Engineering all his life. Hobbies include playing the guitar, soccer, and photography. Research interests include innovative pedagogies (Active, Flipped, and Online instruction) and applied numerical methods. Devayan has published peer reviewed papers, presented at
has worked at the University of Glasgow specialising in teaching English for Academic and Specific Purposes. Anna is interested in academic development, particularly related to writing skills and graduate attributes. She has developed a keen interest in e-learning and how technologies can be used to enhance learning and teaching processes. Her special areas of interest include: effective online course and activity design, building online communities and multimodal approaches to writing and assessment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Investigating EAST (English for Academic Study Tele-collaboration) A UK- Palestine English Language Project for Engineering and Science
to connect to moreacademic support (2); (3); (4). By providing a physical environment for students in engineeringmajors to live, our program has historically allowed students to make academic and socialconnections early in their college career, which better supports their persistence. In recent years,students in the Engineering Leadership Community have taken multiple classes in the samesections together, including a one-credit academic success course and their introductoryengineering lab. This method uses Tinto’s learning community model, helping students to makeconnections between courses with their peers (1).The additional elements of service-learning and project-based learning have brought theresidents of the Engineering Leadership
members within their program of study. What made this workshop design different is the participation from each entity in the alliance and their knowledge about technology programs. The objectives for the workshops are accomplished by the following activities: 1. The students joined American Toastmasters or similar organizations which assists them with soft skills and helps them with their writing skills and public speaking. 2. Students received job training through practical lab assignments and real life applications. The students then present discoveries and are evaluated by their peers, industry, faculty, and advisory board. 3. Increase students’ technical
to support their academic and social transition to college. To achieve thesegoals, the course curriculum emphasized career exploration, collaboration with peers, writtenreflections, and diversity and global learning opportunities.We identified with Yosso’s theory of “navigational capital,” which captures the knowledge andskills of underrepresented or underprivileged students that enable them to navigate institutionsand communities where a dominant culture prevails 27. Rather than taking a deficit approach (i.e.minority students need to be fixed), this study focuses on cultivating the strengths and assets offirst-generation and URM students to guide them toward success in engineering. In addition tosupporting these students, this course and
new people and some people I know from before and I think that they may judge me, I do have the fear of not being able to convey my message properly.” “Once, a peer told me that they so much appreciate international students because they work very hard and they can imagine how hard writing would be for them if they had to write in a different language. I believe knowing about that significantly helped me with my self-confidence. Also, my advisor has always been open about acknowledging my struggles and has normalized it for me that I can make a mistake and it’s fine. Acknowledging my hard work has allowed me to be open up about my struggles and not be ashamed of who I am as a scholar. I
institution requires we gain approval from the certifying body for theuniversity's state. All institutions in the state must evaluate the effectiveness of their UCC atregular intervals. Our teaching methods and content has evolved such that the institution's componentcourses and pedagogies of Team Teaching are vital to achieving the desired outcomes. Ourmodel is an "all in" team endeavor; our instructional team meets with all classes, and such is anenterprising dynamic, engaging faculty, staff, and near-peer teachers, working together. Modeling teamwork is a core attribution of our approach. Research-to-practice becomespractice-to-research as we learn new ways to help our students succeed while growing theirpreparedness for future success
first-year students, are particularly difficultfor students to succeed as they transitioned to college. Exam formats and expectations aredifferent than what students experienced in high school and vary from class to class. Engineeringmajors report spending a greater amount of time preparing for classes and exams [2]. Manystudents new to college report that they don’t know how to study and prepare for college exams[3], anecdotally reporting that in high school it was sufficient to simply read over notes. Mostnew students are also still building their support network of peers and may solely be studying ontheir own. Additionally, in many courses exams can comprise a significant portion of the finalgrade. Doing poorly on an exam can also have a
professional development on negotiation skills,a glimpse of the life and career of ECE faculty members, information on different types ofschools, tips on how to prepare for a successful academic position interview, and opportunitiesfor networking with over 300 department heads and 40 peers. In response to a post-workshopsurvey, students reported that they particularly valued the networking opportunities withdepartment heads and peers provided by this unique opportunity to bring students and chairstogether at the ECEDHA conference. Participants’ interest in postdoc and faculty positionsincreased after the workshop with more of an increase in interest in faculty positions. Those whoresponded to a second survey six months later reported that they
university students.This paper details the specifics of the community, peer and faculty support that we offer at SPUto engineering student recipients of our S-STEM scholarship program funded by the NationalScience Foundation (NSF). This paper contributes to the literature by providing insights into thelived experiences of engineering transfer students. As engineering faculty and staff, we havegleaned these insights by working more closely with this group of students than we often are ableto with non-S-STEM students. We are writing to share these insights to other faculty who, likeus, do not typically have the opportunity to get to know student stories this closely. This paperalso contributes to the literature by detailing the impact of various
Paper ID #30695Designing Little Free Libraries for Community Partners in a First-YearGraphics and Design CourseElizabeth Johnson, Playful Learning Lab Elizabeth is an undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering. She works as a peer mentor for the Engineering Graphics and Design course and is a Research Assistant in the Playful Learning Lab.Elise Rodich, University of St. Thomas Elise Rodich is studying mechanical engineering with a minor in materials science at the University of St. Thomas. She works for the Playful Learning Lab as an undergraduate student researcher on a variety of projects, including the
highereducation environments have been repeatedly demonstrated to overcome these factors. The“Tinto Model of Student Retention”7 provides a useful framework for discussion of academicand social integration, adopted by existing successful programs such as National ScienceFoundation (NSF) funded Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP), whichaims to “build productive capacity and output within institutions having significant enrollment ofminority populations” 8 in STEM fields. Specifically, Tinto’s theory recommends tailoredintervention to meet the needs of specific cohorts (e.g. transfer students, academically “at risk”students, “non-traditional” students). Interventions take the form of undergraduate researchexperiences, faculty and peer
engineeringlectures. Unlike speeches, most engineering lectures include use of detailed visuals such as slidesor diagrams, and sequential procedures. DHH students constantly look away from their laptopdisplay to search and study the visuals. As a result, they spend less time watching lecture visualsand gain less information than their hearing peers. However, the need to process simultaneousaural and visual information can also be taxing for hearing students, and previous studies haveshown that they also benefit from real-time speech-to-text transcription.We evaluated the real-time display of captions (RTD) usability by both deaf and hearing studentsin an engineering class. It further examined the factors that influence hearing students' use ofRTD as an
, low salaries, and agender-biased environment.WISE@OU worked to address these challenges through workshops and trainings forfaculty in the STEM departments (and across campus). Over the course of the grantprogram, WISE@OU initiatives focused on career planning (including tenure), work-life leave options, granting writing and funding opportunities, and mentoring. 6WISE@OU created a series of luncheons where junior STEM faculty could meet eachother as well as administrators and senior faculty. These events were a uniqueopportunity to bring together faculty who didn’t normally interact. Newly-hired STEMfaculty were contacted at the start of each semester and
-based curriculum development process and before they began teaching their students.Consenting students also completed a survey after experiencing the coding lessons their teachersdeveloped and shared their experiences. Data collection included information on teachingmaterials developed by the teachers, teacher-related survey data, and student-related survey data.The data analysis focuses on two aspects of the work, namely the applications developed bythree teachers and their experiences, as well as the findings of their student surveys. While moreteachers and students participated, we were only able to reflect on these three teachers and theirstudents at the time of writing this paper.2.1 Overview of research-practice partnership professional
CareerEngagement (https://careerengagement.utexas.edu/graduate-students/). In addition to our state ofthe art research facilities, our campus also offers numerous opportunities for personal growth andrelaxation, including the Blanton Museum of Art (https://blantonmuseum.org/), Moody Center(https://moodycenteratx.com/), and Recreational Sports (https://www.utrecsports.org/).At the department level, we offer peer-mentoring and weekly professional development seminarsthrough the BMEntored program. We are proud of how our students support each other throughstudent organizations such as the BME Graduate Student Society(https://sites.google.com/view/utbmegss/home) and Graduates for Underrepresented Minorities(https://www.gumut.org/). We invite you to stay
conducted in 2016by the University of Washington (UW) Center for Evaluation and Research for STEM Equityfound that awardees “found the grant writing process to be beneficial in helping them refineand package their ideas, build relationships with mentors, and develop literature reviews.Some of the grantees found themselves using parts of their proposal for federal grantproposals.” The UW evaluation also identified the following career impacts from theawardees: Internal and External Collaborations Strengthened, Mentorship by Grant Mentorsand Peers Benefitted Grantees; Increased Confidence in Expertise and Dissemination ofWork; Value and Influence Manifested as Respect, Credibility, and Leadership Potential;Leadership Experience Built Tangible Skills
haste to complete the exercises. The clarity of text-based exercises can often be an issue. Not every student interprets instructions in the same way. Students read and interpret instructions at different speeds. This results in challenges keeping the class moving through material together. This can exacerbate a weaker student’s understanding of critical concepts as they rush in an attempt to keep pace with their peers. Instructors and TAs are often by-standers when students are working on these exercises. In many cases they are relegated to assisting students understand the instructions rather than engaging them in deepening their understanding of the concepts. This is not the best use of their time and skill
Encouraging faculty Engineer-to engineer peer Senior faculty Promotion/Career service at funding mentoring; Non-tenure- development agencies (name of Funding/publications/ service/ track faculty Service positions) teaching Emphasis in Work/life balance Proposal writing for Retention, Promotion, Tenure diversity Team building government (NSF, NIH, Cross disciplinary collaborative (incudes Collaborative & DoD, DOE, AFSOR) research; women and professional and industry funding Building community
pathology as a method of improving student’s knowledge andlearning. After randomly splitting a class of 62 students (32 experimental, 30 control), theexperimental group students were asked to write, answer, and explain 60 multiple choicequestions covering different topics over the length of the term (Shakurnia 2018). Both groupscompleted identical multiple choice pre- and post-tests, and experimental students were surveyedon the question creation activity (Shakurnia 2018). The experimental group achieved on average10% higher grades on the post-test, but the students noted that question writing is unfamiliar andunpopular as a learning strategy (Shakurnia 2018).Students in their second year studying general pathology were assigned to create 4
question rated the simulated labs as helpful or veryhelpful in the process of learning the material. 96% felt the real-board labs were helpful or veryhelpful. Notice that these students rate physical labs much higher than videos, animations, andreading materials.Figure 8. Measure of learning effectiveness differentiated by course content.In this survey we also asked about grading of software style using peer assessment. Table 2shows that this component has room for improvement. The peer assessment was completelyredone for the Spring 2016 class.Table 2. Post-course survey for the Spring 2015 deployment when asked “Peer assessment inLabs 10, 12, or 14 provided me additional insight on writing effective code”.Strongly disagree 3.7%Disagree
Choi, University of Southern California Helen Choi is a Lecturer at Engineering Writing Program at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. She teaches Advanced Writing and Communication for Engineers and is the Co-Chair of the USC Academic Senate Campus Climate Committee. She is a former corporate attorney, licensed to practice in New York and California.Cheyenne Gaima American c Society for Engineering Education, 202112With the research about the roles of affirmation and storytelling inSTEM success and community-building in mind, we created Re-Engineering Engineering Education (RE3) program in whichundergraduate engineering students are hired and trained to
and Use Committee (IACUC), and grant writing and proposalpreparation. Additionally, a session on technology transfer is provided.A mid-term report is due after 4 weeks, and at the end of the program a presentation poster is tobe presented to the public, faculty, and fellow students, with a demonstration of the projectdesigned.The program has been successfully conducted in the summers of 2022 and 2023, with intentionsto proceed into summer 2024. The current year's participation data is encouraging, featuring 31undergraduate students, which constitutes 10% of the school's undergraduate body. Thedistribution across academic years includes 3 seniors, 8 juniors, 14 sophomores, and 6 freshmen.Fairfield University's summer research initiative
? 12● Ask for people’s definition of Whiteness. Write answers on whiteboard. Then provide some/all of the definition below: ○ Whiteness: A false ideal, historical mechanism of power, and privileged social position that benefits white people (DuBois, 1999); a social concept that has “historically stratified and partitioned the world according to skin color” (Leonardo, 2002, p. 32); a (dominating) worldview and discourse; a racial category and socially constructed identity supported by hegemonic and flexible material practices and institutions (Leonardo, 2004); an epistemology (DuBois, 1999; hooks, 1992; Mills,1997; Leonardo, 2009) characterized by
students to weigh trade-offs betweenresponsiveness and excessive motion. In order to assess the value of collaboration in thesequizzes, we contrast student gains on one scenario-based quiz completed individually to thosecompleted collaboratively. We evaluated pre-test performance and conceptual growth using avalidated concept inventory [1]. Students also completed a pre/post measure of their abilities toco-regulate their work as members of a group. We found that students showed improved co-regulation abilities, performed lowest on the individually completed quiz, and that the studentswho began with the lowest scores on the concept inventory had comparable outcomes to theirhigher-scoring peers. Collaborative quizzes are well aligned to active
Paper ID #22525Computing and Engineering Scholarship Program at SCSUDr. Susantha Herath, St. Cloud State University Dr. Susantha Herath is a professor and the Chair of the Information Systems (IS) department at St. Cloud State University. He holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering. His current research interests are in risk management, cyber security and information assurance. He has 25 years of college-level teaching experience at graduate and undergraduate levels and 31 years of research experience. He has published over 75 peer-reviewed articles. He has submitted over 45 competitive grant proposals and received over
tools and services, includingmentorship, professional readiness training, research opportunities, scholarships, and peer-mentor activities. These efforts have led to impressive outcomes, including a significant increasein retention and persistence rates, increased graduation rates having quad-fold those observed inthe general student population, and an impressive record of engagements in industry, research,and leadership experiences. This paper discusses the program structure and outcomes from fiveperspectives that include background experiences, the structure of provided services, the resultsof their execution, the elements of knowledge derived from its application, and the challengesexperienced throughout its implementation.I