well-educated workforce is progressively increasing in both academia and industry. Thus, being exposed to researchmechanisms during the delineation of engineering problems can assist undergraduate students to betterunderstand options for sustaining career vitality. Those who are more aware are able to make moreinformed decisions regarding future career plans in both academia and industry. Moreover, connectingthe course materials to the related state-of-the-art researches that are being conducted in the researchcommunity helps the students to comprehend the course fundamentals while getting familiar with thecontemporary outcomes of the concepts they have learned. It also aids the course instructors to keeptheir course material up-to-date. In
]. Strong interpersonal skills are essential for an individual working with people tocomplete tasks and achieve results. It takes more than technical skills to differentiate a mediocreemployee from an outstanding one. Soft skills complement hard skills and broader soft skillssuch as critical thinking and communication create commitment and reduce uncertainty [24].Burrell, et al. [14], Corona [19], Deari, Kimmel, and Lopez [23] argued that organizations needto continually identify, develop, nurture, and retain leaders as part of an ongoing talentdevelopment strategy. Creating personalized development plans to assess American businessleaders’ abilities against recognized cultural competencies and identifying competency gaps andrisks associated with
to understand the evolution ofstudents’ motivation. Most notably, the author plans to conduct a longitudinal study that repeatsthe survey for Study 2 at the conclusion of the Winter 2019 term so that the same cohort of studentsis evaluated at two times relative to the term. Additionally, the repeated study will allow for acloser comparison between the two groups of students (those enrolled during the Winter 2018 andWinter 2019 terms), to see if the student responses are still different at the same point in time.Alternatively, more qualitative information can be collected through short answer questions andfocus groups to elucidate students’ thought processes with regards to CMSE assignments. AsCMSE topics are added to the undergraduate
access technologies available to them, there is more workto be done.LimitationsThis study has a few limitations. Based on the answers from the survey CAT student employeestook, a few students did not complete some areas asking for more information. For instance, noteveryone typed in their age. It seems, the mobile survey, where it asks for the person to type ininformation, is not intuitive. In other words, user experience design for the survey needs morework.For the focus groups, the original plan for the two focus groups (n=10) to consist of: 1.) fivestudents who did not report to supervisors A or B during the AY 17-18 and 2.) five students whodid not report to supervisor C during the AY 17-18. N = 5 per focus group x 2 groups equal 10.However
experiences that other students do.Future work will involve disseminating this survey at the authors’ home institution, to gatherdata about the wide variety of project teams at the university. The findings from the firstdissemination of the survey will likely influence future research directions. One planneddirection is to use the findings of the survey to determine how to develop ways to better engagewith and encourage the teams that do appear to have poor team culture. By connecting teams thatare more welcoming with teams that are still developing ways to be more inclusive, we may beable to push project teams to adopt more inclusive recruitment and retention strategies.Another planned direction is to make the survey available for use at other
. Developing astrategy to approach this problem involves several aspects that need to be carefully considered ifwe are to understand, plan, and successfully achieve our goal.Such a journey is a call to us to explore what we know and what we need to know about climbingthe mountain. We have our preconceived notions and prior knowledge of climbing mountains, butwe are challenged to increase our consciousness about the problem so that we may take ownershipof the problem. We need to decide on how we will comprehend what we don’t know. Once, ourqualitative mindset can recall the references of our prior experiences in our structures ofassumptions. Then, we begin listing our ideas of possible ways to reach our goal.As the journey is set to be time-sensitive
of a patient are often more effective. Local solutions involvehorizontal innovation networks to create assistive technology that is modifiable by healthcareprofessionals and patients, not just the engineers that created the device. However, the ability tocommunicate between engineers, healthcare professionals, and patients requires empathy.A number of other researchers have investigated the importance of developing empathy in theirengineering courses. Mitchell and Light (2018) have incorporated initial challenger interviews,subject matter expert speakers or videos, stakeholder engagement plans, and reflection exercisesto help students develop empathy in “EPICS,” a first-year design course at Colorado School ofMines [2]. In another first-year
comprehensive school reform initiatives. Across these evaluations, she has used a variety of evaluation methods, ranging from a multi-level evalua- tion plan designed to assess program impact to methods such as program monitoring designed to facilitate program improvement. She received her Ph.D. in Research, Measurement and Statistics from the Depart- ment of Education Policy at Georgia State University (GSU).Benjamin Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology Benjamin Klein received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1994 and 1995, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2000. From 2000-2003, Dr. Klein served as a postdoctoral fellow at the
portions of thebook itself. This multi-dimensional way of reading can be immensely helpful as we try toencourage students to create technological solutions for systems that may not even currentlyexist.AcknowledgementsThis paper features the work of undergraduate students Thomas Lopresto, Joshua Quire, andJohn Booker from Spring 2020 and Dakota Fannin from the Fall 2019 Network Switches &Routers course. Partial support for the educational resources related to the project was providedthrough the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Leadership Grant funding at Eastern KentuckyUniversity and is kindly acknowledged. Thanks to the reviewers for their careful review of thedraft and suggestions for improvement.References[1] Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L
educational website so that it doesn't need to retain and act upon a memory of user choices, inputs, and experiences (as occurs in the Trapped in Time learning adventure). This change resulted in greater robustness across a variety of platforms and simpler implementation for educators and children. The more dynamic approach to integrating the novel and website more than compensated for any loss in the dynamic nature of the user experience.Future DirectionsFuture research will focus on conducting a more rigorous assessment of applying ImaginativeEducation (IE) and transmedia in a controlled setting. In this research we plan to adapt ThroughMy Window to match the learning goals in a city school system in order to assess
programs.Several studies show this contrast, suggesting that further research in this area is warranted.The rationale for the higher population of students consistently in one program over the other isgenerally unknown. While researchers study the engineering population, the engineeringtechnology population goes relatively unnoticed. The effects of a student’s past and currentenvironments in engineering technology are relatively unknown.Researchers developed a survey to gather data from underrepresented populations inuniversities that meet the noted criteria. While the premise for this survey was to learn moreabout these students, their demographics, community and school support and preparation for theuniversity experience, as well as their plans for the
progressively guide theparticipants in becoming more effective and independent learners through the application of self-regulated learning strategies (Zimmerman, 1990, 1995, 2002) integrated into the mentoringsessions, and (c) serving as student role models who can highlight how they addressed academicand social issues they encounter, identify what’s really necessary to complete a degree in arigorous domain such as engineering (e.g., persistence, autonomy, active learning), along withthe career potential in terms of what computer scientists and engineers really do, and some of thesupportive benefits offered by the university (See Figures 2-3-4). Our project plan usesevidenced-based mathematics learning initiatives (Bressoud, 2014; Klingbeil, et al
othersoft skills, students participate in a complex semester-long project consisting of a series of labswherein they work in groups to create experimental plan, carry out measurement, perform dataanalysis and compose comprehensive lab reports. The project requires significant GTAsupervision and grading, which takes advantage of the instructional resources alleviated by auto-grading due to the implementation of CBA.4.2 Assessment DesignFigure 4.2 shows the SODAS mapping of Engineering assessment to Bloom’s taxonomy. Itdepicts a hierarchy of knowledge types inside a four-tier hierarchy along with the cognitiveprocesses engaged during each assessment activity, as defined in the refined overview ofBloom’s classification. Starting with the pyramid at
design of the VR teachingmodule to be more immersive and visualized. The current VR module is a semi self-paced tutorial.Concurrent research (Phase III) is being conducted to investigate how well students understand thequeuing theory concept using this updated VR teaching module versus traditional classroomlecture. Data is currently being collected using a different set of students with the same conceptualquiz but taught the topic in a traditional classroom manner (control group). Afterwards, we plan toprovide a comparative analysis of both approaches, control group versus experimental group anddisseminate the results.. The sections discussed below only reflects how well the students performusing the VR training module (experimental group
compatible – we need to expand this app on other mobile platforms (iOS, WindowsMobile) to cater iPhone and Windows phone users , (ii) conducting a survey to evaluate theusability of this mobile app (planned for Spring 2018), and lastly (iii) comparing the study resultsfrom mobile app with the results from other VR platforms that we have studied such as theCAVE and the 3D TV.8 References[1] T. Abdel-Salam, P. J. Kauffman, and G. Crossman, "Does the lack of hands-on experience in a remotely delivered laboratory course affect student learning?," European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 747-756, 2006/12/01 2006.[2] B. Jackson. (2015). What is Virtual Reality? Definition and Examples. Available: http
verify the suitability of the proposed implementation w.r.t. the project specifications, which are based on those defined in the standard, and b) Define Performance Tests to analyze the impact of the chosen techniques on the overall system performance.Along with defining those tests, the team develops a set of figures of merit (FOMs) for bothtypes of tests and uses those to quantitatively characterize the performance of the system w.r.t.the project requirements.Developing appropriate FOMs and test plans and analyzing how these are specified in thestandard is a very valuable educational experience. Regulated tests allow interactions among thestakeholders (device manufacturers, network operators, service providers, etc
going onto the next. At these early phases, it may besufficient for the engineers and other project staff to simply acknowledge the product-safetyissues that will be faced by the project. Although solutions will be needed before final-designrelease, a detailed plan of action may not be required yet.Phase 3 is the stage of most concern to the design-engineering team. It is here that the product isdesigned, re-designed, prototyped, analyzed, tested, and finally released to Manufacturing. Thisblock shows interactions with suppliers and the suppliers’ interactions with sub-suppliers. Thefigure shows the explicit need for testing in the field and in the laboratory. There are numerousincremental reviews of product safety during Phase 3. During these
weekly meeting was a 2-hour block of time in the makerspace classroom,which either involved one large project, or two mid-sized projects to take up the time. Projectswere structured to last approximately 90 minutes, so if some students took a little longer they didnot run out of time to complete their projects. If a student finished early, they were given theoption of leaving early each week, or completing a second version of the project from that weekor one of the earlier weeks if they had a hands-on item they wanted to create again.Projects (and related tools included): wooden coasters (measuring, Dremel tools), string art(pattern planning, pliers, hammers, nails), wooden swiss-cheese (power drill, drill bits, vise),ratcheting wrench mini
dimensionality ofthe survey data input increases 𝑛𝑛-TARP should continue to be effective. We intend to expand thedimensionality of the data by including all the questions from the pre-survey instead of the eightquestion subset we used in this study. This goal of including additional questions poses somechallenges since not all questions have a Likert scale, nor are they all ordinal. Further, in this studywe considered pre-course survey responses from only four courses; moving forward we plan toincrease this analysis to over 200 courses.6. CONCLUSIONSIn summary, we proposed a new data analysis approach for survey data using 𝑛𝑛-TARP. We generateda distribution of clusters based on student responses to MOOC pre-course survey questions. Ourapproach
system." Sometimes I feel like I liked thework environment there because of the people, rather than the work. But also-It just opens my eye ... Opens my eyes to see that you can learn so much from peoplewho aren't teachers-who don't really have a degree to say ... It's sometimes what youlearn from there is even more valuable than a math problem. You could take even more ...It could take you farther sometimes.Yeah, so that's something ... I don't want to let go of that. That's maybe why I want to stay within that environment. Probably something in agricultural. Well, my plan is get a Bachelor's in Civil [Engineering]. Hopefully either structural or water, and then probably major ... Master in agricultural engineering
additional MatSEclasses into the SIIP program. In addition, we also have in place a mechanism for continuous re-vision and improvement of the existing computational modules through an end-of-year debriefand planning session, in which the SIIP faculty and teaching assistant conduct a “post mortem”of the computational modules. By identifying aspects of the material, delivery, and student re-sponses that were positive and successful, and those that were less so, the team identifies how andwhere to improve the material and its dissemination for the following year.The student surveys provide valuable information, but their utility as an assessment instrumentcan benefit from further improvement. The sample sizes in the senior level computational
number of participants per grade, per ethnicity and in theall-girls after-school STEM program limits generalizations from our data.Although initially planned, a major limitation of the study was that a pre-survey was notconducted limiting the ability to “compare” the influence of the all-girls after-school program.Additionally, the absence of open-ended questions or follow-up interviews with either all-schoolstudents or teachers, limits our insight into student reasoning. For example, do the students knowwhat “engineering” is when asked if girls belong? Interest scores in science were lower than inother areas. The principal indicated hiring good science instructors was a constant struggle andthat the department would be revamped the following
ideas as well asfeedback from colleagues and anonymous reviewers.References[1] J. Johnson-Bailey, R. M. Dervero. (2008). Different Worlds and Divergent Paths: Academic Careers Defined by Race and Gender. Harvard Educational Review, v78, n2, pp. 311-332, Summer.[2] Super, D.E. (1990). A Life-Span, Life-Space Approach to Career Development in Brown, D. Brooks, L. & Associates (2nd edn) Career Choice and Development San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp197-261.[3] Super, D.E. and F.J. Minor. (1987). Career Development and Planning in Organizations. Advances in Organizational Psychology, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.[4] M. J. Finkelstein, V. M. Conley, J. H. Schuster. (2016). Taking the Measure of Faculty Diversity. Advancing
academic, public, government, and corporate libraries.Roberts3 provides a historical survey of the administrative structure of academic science andtechnology libraries with survey results from approximately one hundred libraries. Maugham4describes the planning and construction of the Kresge Engineering Library at the University ofBerkeley. In 1999 Poland5 describes administrative restructuring and consolidation of scienceand technology libraries at Cornell, and in 2007 Powell6 summarizes the merger of reference andcirculation desks. A few years later Powell7 and Scharnberg8 discuss the transition to virtual, orbookless libraries.Many universities present information about the history of their engineering libraries on an“about page” or Wikipedia
Paper ID #19870Closing the Gap: Using Supplemental Instruction as a Tool to Assist Minori-ties in EngineeringLt. James Blake Gegenheimer, STEP James Gegenheimer is an MSME Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at LSU. James is a Second Lieu- tenant in the United States Air Force. He will be stationed at Hill Air Force Base in Salt Lake City, Utah. He plans to pursue a Ph.D. through the Air Force and work with the Air Force Weapons Research Labora- tory. James is currently the Supplemental Instruction Coordinator at LSU for the College of Engineering. He also served as a Supplemental Instructor in Thermodynamics for over
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., Eng., & Math. (STEM) Health Science Transportation, Distribution & LogisticsThe selection of career cluster is non-binding, but allows for systematic development ofindividualized graduation plans (IGPs) based on career interests. The IGPs primarily affectrecommendations for course electives; all sixteen career clusters have identical recommendationsfor the four-year sequence of mathematics courses, as shown in Table 2. Table 2 Mathematics course recommendations for high school graduation in South Carolina. Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Algebra 1 Geometry Algebra 2 Precalculus or
an awesome experience.” • “Going to the movies and definitely going to the George Bush museum.” • “The movie nights were also a blast.”When students were asked about their career plans “as a result of participating in the Lab Ratsprogram,” seven out of nine (78%) participants reported that they are “definitely more likely” topursue a STEM career, one participant (11%) responded “probably more likely,” and only oneparticipant responded “neutral” (Figure 1). Definitely MORE likely to pursue a STEM 7 career Probably MORE likely to pursue a STEM 1 career
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hamper sustainable communitydevelopment efforts. Guest speakers came from industry, from consulting firms that focus oncommunity engagement, and from academia. For their final essays, students synthesized thesemester’s reading to critically analyze the potential for CSR to deliver shared social,environmental, and economic value to stakeholders. In groups, they gave presentations on thearticles, lead one class discussion, and created a stakeholder engagement plan for a real worldengineering project. The course focused primarily on the community engagement dimensions ofCSR, with gestures to the role played by engineers and engineering.Spring 2017 Indigenous Peoples and Natural Resource DevelopmentThis is an upper division elective humanities and