clinical perspectives. The summer program endedwith a final Scholar symposium of projects, reflections of the Scholar experiences and plans foracademic year projects. These selected needs provided the basis to enhance the existingcapstone design course (Engineering Clinic) during the academic year with new design projectsto be developed, discovered through the needs finding and needs specification process during thesummer immersion. This year-long cycle and the specific topics in the summer immersion andacademic semesters are summarized in Figure 1. Figure 1 – Biodesign through Clinical Immersion and Capstone Design course12The authors want to determine over the course of the past two years of the program the effect onScholar attainment of
objective is to formalizea methodical approach to needs assessment based on user-centered research. While in rotation in theclinical departments, student teams are matched with a clinical mentor who provides guidance andoversight. The clinical mentor in each of the hospital clinics oversees the students while in theirrespective rotation, addressing questions and providing clarification on procedures, norms, and generalcommentary regarding process. Mentors promote interaction between students, physicians, clinical staffand patients. The students are required to write twice weekly blog posts during their clinic rotations (readthe blog entries on the CIP website: https://clinicalimmersion.uic.edu/). These posts serve as both a recordand a reflection
the outcomes demonstrated by students viathe evaluative components, grades were assigned ranging from A (attainment of all outcomes ata proficient level) to B- (attainment of 1 outcome at a proficient level).Student ProjectsThroughout the course, students were asked to maintain and continuously update a coursejournal. This journal consisted of entries similar to a diary in which students would reflect uponthe broader impacts topic being discussed and record their level of personal interest andalignment of personal values with the goals and impact of that specific broader impacts (BI)activity. The intent here was for the students to identify an area of BI activity that aligned withtheir interests and motivations right from the beginning
engineering careers.AcknolwedgementsWe appreciate the support of Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education and the FirstYear Engineering Honors Program for their support of this study. The views expressed by theauthors do not necessarily reflect the views of these agencies.References[1] Brophy, S., Klein, S., Portsmore, M., & Rogers, C. (2008). Advancing engineering education in P-12classrooms. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), 369-387.[2] Bennedsen, J., & Caspersen, M. (2008). Model-driven programming. In Reflections on the Teaching ofProgramming (pp. 116-129). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.[3]Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt. (1997). The Jasper Project: Lessons in curriculum, instruction,assessment, and
full study includes quantitative and qualitative assessmentsin the form of surveys, focus groups with students, and evaluation of student work (lab reports ororal presentations) for quality and content by two external reviewers. Student learning styles(active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal and sequential/global) were also assessed usingthe Index of Learning Styles Survey (ILSS) by Felder and Solomon. Data was collected at threedifferent institutions: a public, land-grant minority serving institution, a private minority servingliberal arts college for women, and a private, predominantly white liberal arts college. A controlgroup of students experienced a traditional laboratory or seminar and an intervention groupexperienced case
court provided evidence based data tosupport their conclusions and a means to assess conceptual understanding in this PBL scenario.Student reflection and instructor feedback in addition to the three tiered framework rubricfacilitated assessment of the student cognitive learning process. Additionally, it was observedfor a seven contact hour a week course that students were engaged in the project between 10-12hours/week gaining more practical, hands-on experience in engineering materials and theirmethods of deterioration. As a result of this experiential learning, the students involved in PBLprojects (as compared to semesters in which students did not use PBL) produced better qualitywork as demonstrated through increased time on task, improved
resultant rhythms, to organize a series oflike elements or spaces should be demonstrated.Focus: In each scheme, attention should be directed to an area of visual interest – focus may beobtained through the use of contrast, color, size, complexity or simplicity of form, etc.Materiality: Each tower should also exhibit experimentation with basswood as the primarybuilding material. An accent material may be used to enhance the visual experience of theconstruct. These materials may explore issues of texture, color, visual weight, reflectivity, andsense of enclosure.Function: The human must interact with the construct; the entry and ascension sequence must beconsidered carefully. The tower should also be designed from overall form to the detail level;the
(IMSE) Day at The University of Texas at El Paso,with a goal of providing students from El Paso - Cd. Juarez region with opportunities to growand develop engineering and leadership skills. Considering the global use of green engineeringand green manufacturing technologies by industries for minimizing environmental impact andincreased resource utilization, IMSE day 2016 was specifically geared towards introducingstudents to new information age technologies and their application in the fields of greenmanufacturing and engineering. The conducted workshops and seminars are based on the theme“Internet of Things” (IOT) to reflect the interdependent nature of manufacturing processes andthe ability of IOT to improve visibility in manufacturing. The
16If we add the legacies of violence that persist in engineering education and industry, to thepresent-day illusion of neutrality it becomes clear that the disciplines of engineering providelittle opportunity for practitioners to be reflective about their roles in perpetuating violence. Still,reflective research on the intersections of engineering/liberal education andengineering/sustainability appears to be growing.17 18 This research helps to support a vocalminority seeking alternative forms of engineering education that are not rooted in violence. Uponrecognizing the long-standing role of engineers as “hired guns” for the military-industrialcomplex, these educators and researchers use frameworks of peace19 and critical pedagogy20 topropose
Learning. Motivation is a physical or psychological drive to obtain the means tosatisfy one's needs for existence, relatedness, and growth15. People's beliefs about their ability toexercise control over events that affect their lives are major factors in their motivation, affect,and action. People actively influence their motivations based on how they handle their goals andexpectations of achieving them4. Self-efficacy beliefs influence the level of goals they set, thestrength of their commitments to the goals, and their behaviors to achieve the goals. People'sself-efficacy beliefs determine their level of motivation, as reflected in how much effort theyexert in an endeavor and how long they persevere in the face of obstacles. People's beliefs
. Itrecommended courses based on their relevance to the practice of global engineering, but itoffered no context within which students had to reflect seriously on global engineering itself.Consequently, students did not connect their coursework to global engineering and to theiridentity as engineers.Besides suffering a lack of focus, the GEC suffered a severe identity crisis, in that students,faculty, and staff repeatedly confused it with the IEC. There was no obvious difference betweenthe terms “International” and “Global.” The contrast was further blurred with the opening of anew Global Engineering Residential Academic Program, since it highlighted the importance ofworld language acquisition by engineers, rather than professional skills for
structure and home for students while a new program grows to criticalmass and fully develops its courses. Though these early students were officially MDE studentsand met the MDE course requirements (which are slightly different from the current BSEEErequirements), they were taught, advised, and mentored by both EEE and MDE faculty and staff.The first three students entered the MDE/EEE plan of study in Fall 2008, and the first twograduated in December 2010. The program grew significantly to almost 50 students by Fall2012. Early in the planning process, the name of the proposed program was chosen to be“Environmental and Ecological Engineering,” rather than a more traditional “EnvironmentalEngineering.” The name reflects unique aspects of the
, perspective-taking, getting feedback, or prototyping). Category 3: User as Human-centered design is a linear design process where users and other Information Source Input stakeholders are viewed primarily as sources of information, assistance, to Linear Process and/or support, not those whose needs should be reflected in design. Human-centered design is keeping the users’ needs and how design will be used in mind while designing. This approach involves gathering Category 4: Keeping the information about the users primarily from higher level stakeholders or Users’ Needs in Mind experts versus the users directly. Integrating that
interviews with some of these earlycareer engineers as they participate in and reflect upon product design, process testing, datapresentation, and workflow planning. Our objective is to show how engineers conceptualize theusers of their products and take them into account during the design process. Our analysisfollows these engineers as they produce documents, drawings and presentations and highlightsthe role of more senior engineers who provide feedback and corrections to help the newengineers understand who the user of the product will be, what the user expects from the product,and how the company would like the user to behave.FindingsWe found that engineers anticipate the user of the products and systems they design and thatlearning about the
she also serves as co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC) and CATALYST Fellow at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Steve Robert Harrison, Dept of Computer Science, Virginia Tech Steve Harrison is the Director of the Human-Centered Design Program at Virginia Tech, an associate professor of practice in Computer Science
. Expectancy-value theory (EVT)suggests that achievement-related decisions reflect individuals’ expectations of success orcompetence beliefs related to a particular task, and the subjective task value they associate with agiven option17, 18, 19. These beliefs and values are shaped by individuals’ personal identities, pastexperiences, the social context in which they are embedded, and their interactions with a givenset of cultural norms18, 19. Eccles and colleagues identify four types of subjective task value: Interest-enjoyment value: the extent to which an individual anticipates enjoying an activity. This type of value is likely to be integrated into an individuals’ self-concept. Attainment-achievement value: how a choice aligns with
writinginstructor present. The techniques were evaluated primarily by student reflection at the end of thesemester. Additionally, student writing assignments were evaluated to determine students’performance on selected writing tasks. Table 1 describes the writing tasks assigned throughoutthe course.Table 1: Assignments given in the Fall 2016 course Laboratory Module Assignments (all technical memos) Temperature Sensing Experiment Individually written Technical Memo (1 week turn around) Individually written revision (1 week turn around) Double Pipe Heat Exchanger Group-written Planning Report (1 week turn around) and
actions of engineers and the technologies for which they are responsible,giving priority to public safety in normative endeavors to define right and wrong within the fieldof engineering.These tendencies are reflected in the emphases of various engineering ethical codes, where avariety of ideals and rules for action are outlined, aimed at and applying to the individualengineer.2,3,4,5,6,7 This orientation could be described as “micro-ethics,” aimed at fostering thecapacities of individual engineers to engage in ethical reflection, decision-making, and action. Inrecent years, the focus of engineering ethics has expanded, encompassing the responsibilities ofprofessional and social organizations, “macro-ethics.”8,9 This shift has raised and
, group C was assigned paper homework and group D wasassigned WeBWorK.On the day of the quiz, homework was collected at the start of the class period. To ensure thatquiz score would reflect the student’s understanding gained from the homework, both instructorsrefrained from answering any questions prior to and during the short 10-20 minute quiz(instructors could clarify problem statements but refrained from giving hints during the quiz).The quizzes were graded by a common third-party (neither instructor) grader under a specificcommon rubric. The grader had no previous knowledge of which test groups students belongedto during the grading of the quizzes. To verify the effects of either homework format on quizgrades, any quiz grades belonging to
directors through the spring/summer “internship course” whichallowed them to critically reflect on the experience while they were in it by writing reports,producing videos or engaging in interactive peer-to-peer assignments in the target language -- allof these components of curricular design and faculty intervention during the students’ year abroadmake out the background and most likely key to the success behind the seniors’ high interculturalgains and later on also career success10.An additional key element that may have played a role in the students’ high GPI scores is thesequence of a voluntary faculty-led short-term trip abroad prefacing their year-long independentsojourn. The short-term tour plays a significant role in engineering student
engineering educators to develop teaching models andactivities to promote using problem decomposition and recomposition in engineering educationon the basis that professional engineers use more decomposition/recomposition that studentscurrently do.AcknowledgementsThis material is based partially upon work supported by Utah State University during Dr Song’sPhD candidature. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of that institution. Partof this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No.EEC- 1463873. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the
underlyingstructure. This duality of basic computation manifests itself in other higher level processes aswe discuss it later.Another cause may be the control and use of electronic devices by biological computingagents. Our use of an electronic device can certainly reflect the way we use our ownbiological computing device (i.e., our mind). Their utilization, however, depends on how weuse them. So far, we have used electronic devices in various ways, including programming(text-based and visual), office work, communication, visual arts, video games, virtual reality,modeling and simulations. These range from easy tasks (e.g., automation of repetitive andvoluminous work) to complex tasks (e.g., solving systems of differential equations for whichthere is no
peerreviews and periodic reflections on team dynamics. Interestingly, Giurintano, et al. [8], found aneed to focus on teamwork and leadership coaching after observing a lack of effective teamworkamong interdisciplinary teams. They adopted an approach similar to that discussed here withseveral capstone lectures devoted to teamwork and related topics. They also providedspecialized training to interdisciplinary teams. However, an important difference from ourapproach is that their capstone instructors developed and provided the training. The authorsreported that 70% of students surveyed felt that the material was valuable and only 6% said thatit had no value to them. This outcome supports the validity of our approach.MethodologyOur university is
factors whendesigning programs for students. Additionally, researchers should reflect on these factors whenevaluating the effect of programs or institutions on student outcomes.Organizational Knowledge TransferManagement literature on organizational knowledge transfer emphasizes ways in whichknowledge is shared across organizational boundaries and between organizational units toenhance performance and innovation2. Organizational knowledge transfer is “the process throughwhich organizational actors—teams, units, or organizations—exchange, receive and areinfluenced by the experience and knowledge of others”2 (p. 832). Knowledge type, andorganizational and social characteristics affect how knowledge transfer works. Tacit, specific,and complex
-coding Learning Prior coursework and grades in Math, Physics, Chemistry, as well as specialized topics like Statistics, Drafting, Manufacturing…Team experiences Whether the student has been asked to work in a team, of what size and nature and how they perceive that experience. Student outcomes include robust data set in the form of exams, in-class assignments andhomework. This study is focusing on Computational Thinking aspects of this class, thus allreported grades are filtered to assignments that reflect CT and/or CS topics, unless otherwisestated. An example of topics omitted include questions about the general engineering designprocess
public university in theMidwestern United States, participated in this study. 24 of them answered a post-activity ques-tionnaire which reflected, among other things, the demographic information. The respondentsconsisted of 83% CS majors and 17% non-majors. Three-fourths of the respondents were males.About 46% of them identified as Caucasians and an equal number were Asians, while 4% of therespondents were African-Americans and 8% Hispanics.3.2 ProceduresThe students of the course were given two assignments in the form of online-discussions on the twotools: (1) Piazza (http://piazza.com), a popular online-discussion forum used in thousandsof courses across the world, including CSE courses at this university, and (2) CONSIDER, the webapp we
community, and can often lead the establishment of new and shiftedcommunity boundaries. They can provide opportunities for shared discussion and reflection bydifferent communities, as well as an initial platform for exploring the development of new,shared understandings and practices by different communities. Therefore, based on the theoriesand prior work described above and building on established relationships with communitypartners, the Making Connections project began a process to better understand the types ofculturally-embedded making familiar to community partners, engage in extended dialog withcommunity partners and collaborators about specific making activities and practices, and thenweave the funds of knowledge shared by community
. Students reflections and informal interviews show that thestudents are satisfied with the experience and that they highly value gained insights and skills.IntroductionExperiential learning1-3 is a well recognized part of Kolb’s experiential learning cycle/spiral4-6 thatis used as a powerfull pedagogical strategy in many engineering programs. Creating products isthe essense of manufacturing, thus the product realization-based learning seems a natural modelfor learning manufacturing engineering7. Project-based learning (PBL) pedagogy is well acceptedin education8, 9. It is also emphasized as one of the high priority education methods/pedagogiesrequired in manufacturing engineering education10. PBL pedagogy is successfully implementedin a
for students,makerspaces encourage experiential and situated learning experiences through communities ofpractice. Experiential learning is not merely a technique that can be utilized to provide studentswith an experience from which they can learn, but a philosophy of education (Dewey, 1986; A.Y. Kolb & Kolb, 2005). This experiential learning philosophy is characterized by several tenets:learning is (1) a process not an outcome, (2) relearning, (3) resolving conflicts, (4) holisticallyadapting to the world, (5) interacting with the environments, and (6) creating knowledge (Kolb1984). This perspective is built on the notion that knowledge is created from reflecting upon atransformative experience, exemplified through the processes of the
approximately the same, and the perception ofhighly disparate regulatory effects may be caused by more heavily publicized risks.” (Morrall2011: 452) Other studies have suggested that “the regulatory principles may not befundamentally irreconcilable. Instead, the ways they are implemented may be a major cause ofregulatory divergence.” (emphasis added) (Fung 2014: 452) We began with a mental model of the differences between the U.S. and the EU thatassumed divergence based on differences in history and culture, as depicted in figure 1 below.After we conducted detailed analysis of the evolution of attitudes toward technology-based riskand the way those attitudes are reflected in regulatory and educational systems, we modified themodel as depicted in