. Emmett is a certified Project Management Professional and since 2018 has supported strategic global and online initiatives in engineering, including developing online modules to train global engineering competencies. He is the author of the books Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of US Garden Writing (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) and with David E. Nye, Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction (MIT Press, 2017). With Gregg Mitman and Marco Armiero, he edited the collection of critical reflections and works of art, Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (University of Chicago, 2018). His humanities scholarship has appeared in the journals Environmental
arrive at many higher education institutions where these structures have been removed and expectations have shifted to self-directed learning outside of the classroom, initial struggle and sometimes failure become highly probable. There is limited evidence of teaching engineering students discipline-specific metacognitive strategies. A recent study conducted using modelling and coaching of discipline-specific metacognitive strategies in an introductory computer science course using peer tutors, showed that encouraging students to implement these learning strategies had a significant impact on their ability to apply knowledge to programming problems and also had long-term effects on students' future course outcomes.25 Two of the authors have also
to collaborate with one another. Likewise the girls-only structurewas anticipated to reduce the effects of any unintentional negative gender bias in presentationsand activities. Also after attending the camp, the girls should also be able to counter engineeringstereotypes among their peers and should be more able to recognize the impact of engineering ona personal, social, and community level. Increasing the girl’s’ positive engineering interestthrough the Girlgeneering camp should result in increased recruitment to engineering, science,technology, and math classes and careers.The unique components of the Girlgeneering camp are described later in this paper and include atailored individual hands-on engineering project for the girls, a high
improvementideas without significant input from the teacher or peers outside of the team. This point in theprocess—after this internal teamwork yet prior to the team’s formal development of a subsequentplan—is a space in which teachers can facilitate a whole class discussion to enable teams to learnfrom one another and perhaps revise their initial ideas about design performance andimprovement [22]. This provides an opportunity for the teacher to help students move away frombeginning designer and towards informed designer behaviors (e.g., from making changes that donot focus on problematic areas toward making changes that do) [21]. It also enables the teacherto facilitate discussions about diagnostic troubleshooting, identifying design failures
learning pedagogies in STEMcourses [4] [5]. Wieman (2014) describes the goal of active learning as “Stop Lecturing Me” andgetting students to engage through problem solving, discussion with peers, and immediateinstructor feedback [4].This manuscript focuses on five pedagogical improvements made to thedelivery of course material, methods to enhance student engagement, improvement of the overalllearning experience, and increase instructor efficiency in the virtual environment. Pedagogicalimprovements included prerecording lectures, implementation of a system of instructor points,recording in class discussion, flipped classroom set up, and implementing a variety oftechnologies to improve student engagement.Course ModificationsDuring the Spring of
, many researchers and educators areinvestigating anxiety interventions and their effects on student outcomes in science andengineering courses to improve student outcomes for underrepresented groups in STEM[12–15].For instance, Harris et al. tested the effectiveness of test anxiety interventions such as expressivewriting and reappraising physiological arousal on exam performance [13]. They found that theseinterventions, though they did not change the level of self-reported test anxiety in students, didincrease exam performance. Other studies have similarly shown that expressive writing exercisescan be effective in increasing cognitive abilities, particularly when performing problems requiringa high working memory [14]. Many other studies have
. Essentially, as acommunication platform itself, Zoom allows us to be “hands-on” with these topics. Wedeveloped such interactive exercises on topics including multi-level signaling, MIMO, mediumaccess control and network routing.In this paper, we will describe our experiences with implementing a set of such remotely-taughtlessons on wireless communication and networking offered to high school students. Thesecombine write-ups and interactive Zoom sessions that leverage Zoom features to engage studentsand have them experiment with the lesson concepts. Even after schools return to in-personlearning, these sessions could serve as the basis for remote summer camps or after-schoolprograms that could introduce communications concepts to high school students
Podcasts Questionnaire” (SSEPQ), as proposed by[12], was used. The questionnaire, validated by its creators, consisted of 10 Likert-type items thatevaluate student's perception regarding learning podcasts and their content adequacy, ease of use,usefulness and benefits (See Appendix). This SSEPQ questionnaire, having five response optionsranging from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”, was distributed by email to students toanswer. In addition to the SSEPQ questionnaire itself, students were invited to freely write downany further comments in an open-ended format.In order to further inquire upon students' perception regarding the general working strategyproposed (FC + P strategy), a survey known as “Student Response to Instructional Practices
Engineer of 2020 attributes. This study will also be ofinterest to educators considering how the attributes described in 2004 remain relevant in 2020and may spark conversation about how these attributes may need to be adjusted in the future.The study will be of particular interest to those responsible for recommending and implementingcurricular changes in engineering programs.BackgroundThe report titled The Engineer of 2020, published in 2004, is a product of the National Academyof Engineering[1]. The committee responsible for writing the document included 18 people: 12affiliated with academic institutions, 4 affiliated with technology-based companies (IBM, HP,Telcordia, and Reliant Energy), 1 affiliated with a national laboratory (Sandia), and 1
and networking as well as teaching basics in Java programming language and hands-on exercises on Raspberry Pi.4. The Mobile Programming (1.5 weeks) covered mobile operating systems and hands-on experiences on writing Android programs accessing the web. Figure 3: Overview of RET Site: CoMET ProgramSelected module highlights. In the Design and Fabrication of Environmental Sensors Module, ateam of teachers from middle and high schools participated in the design, fabrication andcharacterization of electrochemical sensors that can be used for water quality monitoring. Inorder to establish the knowledge basis for their activities, a faculty mentor provided a series ofshort course lectures each day before teachers
. She is an Associate Editor for the ”Journal of American Indian Education” and has authored or edited three books and numerous articles in peer reviewed national and international journals. Her most recent edited volume was published in 2019 and is called ”The Price of Nice: How Good Intentions Maintain Educa- tional Inequity.”Dr. Ricky Camplain Ricky Camplain, PhD is an assistant professor of Health Sciences and the Center for Health Equity Re- search at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Camplain is a Comanche scholar who was trained in epidemio- logic methods at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health where I received a Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH
felt the learning gainswere less because students were “missing the point” of the labs, as “we're not interested in whatyou got as a result. We are more interested in knowing why you've got what you got.” This couldmean that a targeted pedagogical training intervention specific to online-specific strategies topromote deeper, more critical thinking might be useful to GLAs and increase their self-perception of their role [6]. Strong peer support and a mentor system might also help relievesome of the pressure from adjusting quickly to a new role as a result of the transition tohybrid/online labs [14].Table 1: Salient themes from the graduate perspective and supporting quotes 1) Lack of “The interaction with students in the online
Martin (2005;2007) presented above. In this case adaptive expertise was assessed in terms of knowledge,conceptual understanding, and ability to transfer knowledge. Three class problems were used in apre/post study that examined these dimensions. Students who received instruction based on theSTAR Legacy format showed improved conceptual understanding and improved ability totransfer knowledge relative to peers taught in a non-challenge-based approach.Design Engineering: Design scenarios have been successfully used as a method to facilitate thedevelopment of adaptive expertise in engineering students (Walker, 2006). These scenarios,representing a form of problem-based instruction, are offered to students who are then left totackle the problem
• Conduct status reports and peer reviews • Submit status reports • Demo project • Submit final work plan and demo project • Conduct a team postmortem • Conduct and report a team postmortem14-15 Final Report, Presentation/Demo, and Project Packaging Final Report and Presentation/Demo • Package project code and documentation for next team • Give a comprehensive presentation describing project • Submit a final report and make a final development over the semester and demo the project in presentation/demo to a general audience its final state. Table 1: Team Software Project Course
multiple marginalized identities for all three participants. 4As mentioned, this presentation is part of a larger NSF funded study assessing thein/authentic experiences of engineers in tech. We are interviewing 40 engineers, 10each of Black men, Black women, White men, and White women. Data is currentlybeing collected for the study. The three participants for this presentation werechosen due to their unique stories centered around their self-identified intersectingmarginalized identities. At the time of writing, there were only five womeninterviewed. Four White women working in the tech industry and one Black womanworking outside of tech.Two semi-structured
sustainability, and July focused on convertingproject course implementation to online formats (due to COVID-19).In order to facilitate effective sharing of information and peer learning, SUMMIT-P uses twoprotocols during project meetings that provide a format for effective and fruitful discussion. Thetwo protocols, Descriptive Consultancy protocol and Success Analysis with Reflective Questionsprotocol, have historically been applied in the K-12 education community [4]. The DescriptiveConsultancy protocol [5], originally developed by Nancy Mohr and revised by Connie Parrishand Susan Taylor in August 2013, was modified by McDonnough and Henschel [6] and has beenadapted for this project to help presenters think more expansively about a particular
(Criterion 3) of ABET [12],Pimmel [19] developed and tested a series of short modules aimed at teaching these skills. Hisresults of the students’ perceived confidence in their ability to use technical skills indicated thatthe use of those modules produced a successful and significant effect on student learning whencompared to a control group that did not participate in the modules. These studies proposed thefollowing strategies for developing students’ conceptual understanding and technical skills:learning activities that involve cooperative work, contain opportunities to practice the skill andreceive feedback, and incorporate written, oral and graphical writing in a professional context.While these studies suggest teaching methods to enhance
research activities, have been invited to number of international conferences as Invited Speaker, chaired panel discussions and numerous international conference sessions. He has served on more than 220 international conference program committees. Furthermore, he has published number of articles in peer- reviewed international journals and conferences. He is an active member of ACM, ASEE, ASEE/PSW and CSAB.Dr. Shakil Akhtar, Clayton State University Dr. Shakil Akhtar is currently Professor of IT and Computer Science at Clayton State University. Be- fore this he was the IT Department head from July 2007 to December 2008. He was a Professor in the College of Information Technology at UAE University from 2002 to 2007
to explore their own implicit bias in the areas ofrace, gender issues, and age (the core focuses within the course). Key elements of successful implementation into the engineering leadership environmentincluded creation and access of peer support and a course operational agreement that studentswere invited to sign that outlined inclusive pedagogical approaches and mindsets. Access to peersupport during the process of building skills necessary to facilitate a course like the onedescribed in this project could be achieved by engaging with diversity offices or other experts,participating in reading groups, or paying consultants with expertise in developing instructorcapacity in the areas of diversity and inclusion. In the case of the
national exemplar in teaching engineering ethics. Her book Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility will be published by The MIT Press in 2021. She is also the co-editor of Energy and Ethics? (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) and the author of Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West (Rutgers University Press, 2014). She regularly pub- lishes in peer-reviewed journals in anthropology, science and technology studies, engineering studies, and engineering education. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the British Academy.Dr. Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines Juan Lucena is
-face and online instruction. Our results demonstratea significant increase in teamwork effectiveness for online instruction. In addition, our thematicanalysis shows particular strategies adopted by teams that led to improved team effectiveness inthe online instruction environment.IntroductionProfessionals working in the Information Technology (IT) sector are expected to be proficientwith domain-specific technical skills, while also being able to solve problems by working withtheir peers, users, and clients [1], [2]. As such, IT professionals are required to be proficient withsocial skills such as communication and teamwork [3]. Furthermore, competence in writing andproficiency in management skills are described as critical to being successful
theamount of time that would be devoted to coding. One of these respondents wrote, “runninginto errors is innately frustrating.” Two more students (7%) were put off by the piecemealprocess, with one explaining that it was hard to stay excited about the project when it is spreadout across several semesters. One student (4%) was nervous about continuing the project,writing, “it's intimidating to learn so much about something that used to be ‘untouchable’ forme.”Students’ responses to the StRIP Instrument are detailed in Table 1. The four StRIP subscaleswere considered at the beginning of semester 5 and at week 8 of semester 5, after thecardiograph lab was completed. Overall, these findings demonstrated that students are engagedin the engineering
]. Exercising her agency, Mariabella urged me (andthe group) to consider the displaced persons in the park as particular stakeholders in the design,with distinct needs and requirements. It led us to a distinctly different design space. Wedocumented this idea on the brainstorming paper in the moment. The group later took upMariabella’s idea by 1) including the displaced persons in the park amongst the differentpopulations we surveyed for the design, which led us to 2) focus our design efforts on seating inthe park. The structures of Mariabella’s and Ava’s peers could have constrained this suggestionthrough disagreement or challenge. As the people enacting the curriculum, the group leaders andI could have constrained Mariabella’s suggestion
betterunderstanding of various financial areas. The Global and Cultural Awareness competency areaprovides opportunities for students increase their cultural awareness respect, and understandingof diverse cultures. Personal and Professional Development focuses on personal growth that willlead to students becoming more confident in themselves, and a better employee. Students tracktheir progress and share their accolades with peers, advisors, and employers using Suitable, animpact measurement tool for academic institutions. Bucks+ was originally adopted by the Business + Innovation Department and is modeledafter Temple University’s recently developed Fox Leadership Development Program (FLDP)[20]. This program is a graduation requirement for Temple's
basically all that I deal with in terms of practicalengineering” (F3). This shows that while faculty solve research ill-structured problems, the waythey view industry ill-structured problems differs, which may indicate two different possiblemethods to solving these problems. The two faculty who mentioned they do not solve ill-structured problems on a regularbasis stated that they solve other types of problems such as “how to structure a class” and “howto write a tenure recommendation letter” (F9) and that they do not have time to solve ill-structured problems due to dealing with politics and networking. This indicates that due to non-research responsibilities, some faculty do not think they solve such problems, which may suggestwhy there is
-based training programs have developedonline sketching interfaces to incorporate sketching exercises into their curriculum.Formative feedback is known to support self-regulated learning [7]. However, it is challengingfor a computer-based training program to provide customized formative feedback for students’sketches automatically. Writing constructive feedback to students’ sketches requires domainexpertise to determine what type of mistakes a student made since sketching questions couldhave an enormous number of possible incorrect answers. Therefore, though time-consuming,sketching exercises are often manually graded by instructors. A recent computer-based trainingprogram, eGrove’s Spatial Vis [8], either provides limited feedback on the
. 24Approximately 50 responses were received. A better response wasdesired so arrangements were made to have the technical writing classeswrite essays outlining the criteria each student felt composed aquality engineering education. Two hundred essays were obtained.These essays, as well as the fifty initial responses, were analyzed bynoting the frequency of the rather wide range of criteria mentioned.The results are tabulated in Table 1. DEVELOPING THE SURVEYOnce a list of 11 important 11 criteria had been generated, development ofa survey instrument to measure those criteria began. The instrumentwas used on three groups: faculty, recent graduates, and currentjunior and senior undergraduates. The first group, the faculty
author of nine chapters on an ecological psychology approach to instructional design and has authored more than two dozen peer reviewed research papers. His work has appeared in many major journals including the Journal of Educational Computing Research, the Journal of the Learning Sciences, the Journal of Research on Science Teaching, Instructional Science, and Educational Technology Research and Development. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #33866Mike’s research concerns how people think and learning, and specifically how technology can
globalization. Standards are the reason that a plug fits into the wall, a firehose fits all fire hydrants, and why all USB’s work in different computers and more. A standardis a collectively agreed upon set of rules, regulations, requirements, measurements, or technicalspecifications that are published by an organization [1]. They are published by national standardbodies that provide the means for writing and disseminating new standards. Table 1 shows a listof frequently accessed standards organizations and their commonly used acronyms. Due to a lackof peer-reviewed articles on the subject on accessing standards, the authors felt that conducting asurvey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) would prove useful to analyze standardsacquisitions and
reaching analysis or higher level of Bloom’s taxonomy). It is unlikely thatthere is broad consensus on what a sufficient level of ESI education for engineering studentswould entail.Some of the survey-takers and faculty who were interviewed advocated for greater integration ofSJP into engineering education. For example, a write-in comment on the survey stated “I thinkmost of our students get a reasonable exposure to ethics related to professional code of conduct,engineering design, and disasters. I would like to see more exploration of ethics at theintersection of humanitarian engineering and social justice, and the conflicting tensions that arisefrom trying to do good and solve problems using technology.”Constraints to integrating ESI broadly and