asreports from the National Research Council and the National Science Foundation), websites,scholarly articles, and popular media to understand how NGSS fits within common culturalconstructions of the purposes and goals of science and engineering education.FindingsThe Appendix D case study designed to assist teachers of “economically disadvantaged students”is presented as a vignette. This means that it is not a full transcript of the associated videofootage that the authors viewed for comparative purposes. The vignette summarizes oneteacher's lesson plans that NGSS presents as exemplary for its attention to student “culture,”“sense of place,” and “funds of knowledge.” The vignette specifically calls out several instances,which allege to embody the
graduation.Tracey…has had a lifelong interest in electronics which led him to study engineering and toeventually be a lead participant in SPU’s robotics club. Tracey has a learning disability which isan impediment and necessitates that he set aside more time for assignments than his peers. Hehas learned to compensate, however, and is making solid progress toward his engineering degree.He plans to attend an engineering conference this year or next to make more connections withother engineers in robotics. His path has been a bit jagged, but he expects to graduate a yearfrom now.Discussion – lessons learnedAs the vignettes illustrate, ECASE students can have significant financial need, significant family responsibilities, limited effective study habits, and
Engineering Education Studies looking into the reasons students complete or leave a major, indicated students wholeft STEM-related majors had negative learning experiences, whereas students with intentions topursue a career in science persisted despite the negative experiences [19].MyCollegeOptions.com, a popular free college-planning program, did a survey of high schoolstudents that showed increased interest in STEM. Since 2007, White, Hispanic and NativeAmerican interest has increased while African American has remained constant and AsianAmerican interest has gone up and down. Figure 4 shows percentage of interested parties bygraduating classes from 2007-2016. As interest in STEM increases, the hope is more URMs willcontinue to pursue their
audience of CS2is underclassmen who are planning to pursue a major in Computer Science and Engineering.Other popular majors of CS2 students include Business Administration, Economics and Statistics,as well as others working towards a Computer Science Minor. The only enforced prerequisite forthe class is an introductory programming course taught in C++.CS2 focuses on core computer science concepts and covers four major topics. First, functionalabstraction, including specification, recursion, iteration, and functional generalization. Second,data abstraction, including types, type hierarchies, abstract data types, abstraction andpolymorphism. Third, dynamic resource management, including creation, deletion, andinteraction with containers. Finally
. Faculty perceptions seem to begenerally positive from the Calculus I reform1 and we will continue to monitor this. We willcontinue to rigorously analyze student performance by looking at course grade performance andpost-requisite course performance. We plan to also begin to monitor student performance incertain engineering courses for which Calculus I or II are prerequisites (Statics and Dynamics).AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNos. DUE-0856815 (Idaho STEP), DUE-0963659 (I^3), and DUE-1347830 (WIDER). Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science
additional affirmation that responses will not impact grade) probe: How could the course have improved to meet those expectations?Describe your experiences with engineering before this course. probe: Remind interviewee that talking with engineering majors about their major is anexperience with engineering.How has your engineering literacy changed through this semester, especially regardingengineering knowledge, attitude, and abilities? probe: Negative change is okayHow do you see engineering as a component of your life outside of academic circles? prompt: How to you plan to use what you’ve learned in this class later? What area(s) of life does/might it appear?
, instructors will beable to have a concise and easy implementation plan to improve student satisfaction andmotivation in the classroom, creating a better educational experience for both the students andthe instructor. Once the factors that most significantly influence student motivation andsatisfaction were identified, an implementation model was created and tested. The “Interact,Cultivate, and Deliver” method, also known as the “I-C-D” method, implements the elevensignificant factors found across the three ordinal logistic regression models in a succinct mannerfor instructors. A pilot study of this method was implemented into an IE classroom and it wasfound that when the significant factors were implemented into the classroom, the satisfaction
with LEGO Mindstorms software and Excel. Thesoftware allowed the teams to program the robots, collect the data, plot a graph and come upwith a hypothesis about the time the robot would require to traverse an arbitrary distancespecified by the faculty and/or an undergraduate student leader. The teams who did the mostaccurate predictions won prizes. After the competition ended time was allotted to reflect on theexercise and the lessons learned.In the last part of the orientation, students watched some highlights from videos related to robotapplications previously collected by the faculty and the undergraduate students planning theorientation. A magazine article15 related to humans and robots interaction was provided as areading. Freshman engaged
other departments (especially computer science and mathematics) to meet the teaching objectives.Main Step 2. Research and Development: Fault analysis is an active sub-variant for side-channel attacks. In such implementation attacks, faults are injected maliciously (attackers want toinject transient faults not to break the system, so their plan is intentionally injecting faults intothe architectures of crypto-systems to retrieve as much leaked sensitive information as possible).With respect to IWMDs, for instance, a pacemaker containing an embedded hard processor, hightemperature, unsupported supply voltage or current, excessively high overclocking, strongelectric or magnetic fields, or ionizing radiation, are all the ways to
engineering.Samuel Lozano, Oregon Institute of Technology Civil Engineering student at the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) with a primary interest in trans- portation and transportation structures. Is planning on attending graduate school at OIT, studying struc- tural health monitoring of bridges. Has previously worked on projects involving strain testing of a light rail bridge at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a streetscapes redesign project for the city of Klamath Falls, OR at OIT.Dr. Sean St.Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology Sean St.Clair is a Professor and Chair of the Civil Engineering Department at Oregon Tech, where he teaches structural engineering courses and conducts research in engineering education
key questions raised in the Drucker reading about the kinds of organizations that bring out your best capabilities. Specific issues to address here include: What kind of career do I want and why? How does this career align with my values, strengths, and other skills outlined above? What kind of organization do I want to work for to begin this career? How does this kind of organization align with my strengths? XI. My development plan. The previous sections of the paper provide an honest appraisal of “who I am” and “who I can become”. This section addresses the question, “what I am going to do get
all of those aero classes on top of each other.Miguel goes on to describe how financial obligations forced him to work during undergradinstead of getting recommended volunteer experience in his field: Once I determined that it was going to be my major I knew what classes I needed to take, I knew what courses I needed to pass and what grades I needed to get to graduate really – that was the plan. The only kind of confusion that I had which I am currently figuring out now is the route of medical school versus graduate school. That’s the big decision as an undergrad I didn’t make right away and after I graduated I worked for a couple of years, now I’m back deciding really what I want to do for the rest of my
the community, includingfaculty and peers, was welcoming and supportive, which helped them deal with the difficulty ofthe curriculum and the program workload. In contrast, several negative responses from women,people of color, and/or international students about the social climate demonstrated that there isstill work to be done to make the community in the program more inclusive to traditionallyunderrepresented students. This is in line with the finding in the quantitative analysis that womenrated their peer relations somewhat lower than men; those that rated their peer groups moresupportive were more likely to report identification with engineering and plans to persist.Peer relationships was the largest sub-category within the community
Planning, Developing Research Report, and Understanding School Culture. During these years, he has taught construction courses in several technical schools. Mr. Beigpourian currently works in the CATME project, which is NSF funding project, on optimizing team- work skills and assessing the quality of Peer Evaluations.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative
); ethical in its conductand implications (Walther, Pawley, & Sochacka, 2015); as well as a carefully-planned researchdesign that responds to the research questions, whereby the generation of data enables theresearchers to make supported claims. Although rigor is bound up in all aspects of a study—fromits level of cultural responsiveness to communication with internal and external stakeholdersthroughout the research process—our definition of rigor is narrower than our definition ofquality. Specifically, we understand rigor to mean that a study’s claims and implications havebeen carefully supported with data, and that alternative explanations have been considered andaddressed throughout the research design.Validity and reliability have
written by veterans; not necessarily the best paper about veteran issues. • Host veteran social/service events that also involve non-veterans. One idea that gained much support during the discussion was creating events that bring veterans and non- veterans together. Rather than planning a mixer, it was emphasized that these events be focused on community service because this provides an opportunity for these two populations to work together to achieve something purposeful. • Have an ASEE presence within service member transition programs (e.g., SEP/TAP). All service members attend a transition program prior to exiting the military. These programs are often supported by colleges and universities
. [8]; Ibarra [9]) and may includework-related and/or social relationships. Informal professional networks are essential for careerdevelopment and job effectiveness (Ibarra [9]). Rankin and Caccamise [10] have presented anintervention model to achieve equity in the STEM fields and have recommended some concreteaction plans to achieve the desired outcome in regard to reducing gender gap. Gallagher, et al. [6]used the intervention model to show that the number of female faculty in Geotechnical Engineeringin the entire United States increased from 8 in 1989 to about 80 in 2017, which is believed to beabout approximately 25% of the total number of Geotechnical Engineering faculty in the nation
. Byxbe, "Community colleges under the microscope: An analysis of performance predictors for native and transfer students," Community College Review, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 27-42, 2000.[2] R. Mullen and M. T. Eimers, "Understanding transfer success revisited: Transfer students—Who are they and how successful are they," in MidAIR Fall Conference, Earth City, MO. https://uminfopoint. umsystem. edu/media/fa/planning/degrees/understandingtransferstudents successrevisitedpaper. pdf, 2001.[3] L. S. Hagedorn, H. S. Moon, S. Cypers, W. E. Maxwell, and J. Lester, "Transfer between community colleges and 4-year colleges: The all-American game," Community College Journal of Research and Practice, vol. 30, no. 3, pp
should be given, and equations should be applied consistently using the convention indicated in your diagram. All symbols need to be defined, including those given as initial conditions in the problem statement or new ones that are needed for the problem solution. A free body diagram will be included when appropriate. You may need more than a single figure for more complicated problems.5) Algebraic solution. Start by stating the general equations you plan to use for the solution, which should also clearly relate to your stated known and unknown variables listed from your problem statement and diagrams. An algebraic solution of the problem (i.e. in symbolic format, no numbers plugged in) should be given
keep the focus of the changes on students’backgrounds and desires. The new program structure consists of a base of six courses for allstudents in the program, followed by primary and secondary concentrations (seven courses andthree courses respectively) from a variety of technical specialties in ECE. Students will also havethe option defining their own secondary concentrations rather than choosing one of the definedsecondary concentrations. At the time of this writing (January 2018), the new program structurehas been approved by the faculty, the paperwork for university approval of the structure is beingprepared, and planning is underway for implementing the changes in the fall semester of 2018.More information about this project is available
yourself make you like an engineer? and, (4) What characteristics ofyourself make you unlike an engineer? These questions were developed to explore students’feelings of belongingness within the field of engineering and how they conceptualized theiralignment with the role of an engineer in their communities of practice. Due to the semi-structured nature of the interviews, the order of presentation varied and each of these fourbelongingness questions were not asked in every interview. For this analysis, only the directresponses to these four belongingness questions were investigated. Table 1—Participant Information Institution Pseudonym Gender Race/Ethnicity Planned major at time
as it is.This research is a first step in our analysis of student experiences and outcomes. We have begunby documenting the efforts made by our study institutions to help their Black students to besuccessful. We will continue to interview other key informants as appropriate on our studycampuses as the study progresses. We also plan to interview 80 Black students who are currentlymajoring in or have switched from ME and ECE majors on these campuses to learn if and howthese programs may have impacted them as well as what other factors they credit with theirremaining in or leaving these majors. Our quantitative study will build on the analyses in [1] and[2], among other studies, while focusing on Black students at our study sites. In particular
Paper ID #25003Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. inLearning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning,and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Race, Veteran, and Engineering Identities among Black Male Student VeteransAbstractUsing interviews with seven Black Student Veterans in Engineering (BSVEs) at threepredominantly White institutions (PWIs), we explore how the identities of Black, Male, Veteran,and Engineering student are enacted during their undergraduate engineering experience. Weapproach this study informed by
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purpose of this second coding system was todevelop a simpler and more viable option to assess the sole construct of what engineers do. Itallows the participants conceptions of engineers to be coded into the following categories: Designer: Designing or improving objects or processes, usually portrayed by drawing plans or performing specific parts of the engineering design process, an implied client or public use is intended Technician: Computer or electronic technician portrayed by a person fixing something electronic Design/Create single: Hobbies, crafts, and designs for personal use or making one object for a specific person Tradesman: Carpenters, plumbers, welders, etc. where a person is fixing
schoolopportunities), there are also plans to further improve the video content by adding interviewswith alumni on what companies are seeking in resumes, interviews, etc. and their own stories ofwhat made their employment searches successful. The goal is to add a level of credibility to thelessons by having the students hear messages from professionals in industry who graduated fromValparaiso University engineering programs, and to keep the ESSP content current byhighlighting hiring practices and networking software used in practice.9.0 SummaryThe College of Engineering at X University has developed the ESSP to help students develop thenecessary skills to find excellent jobs in their desired fields of study. The program consists ofstand-alone Blackboard
. Tinkering SE 4 0.87 0.89 Design SE 4 0.90 0.94† Abbreviations: SE = self-efficacy; OE = outcome expectationsChoice Self-Efficacy and Student Major ChangesStudents’ self-reported majors at admission (Figure 1, left column), six weeks into the Fallsemester (Figure 1, center column), and the major they are most likely to pursue (Figure 1, rightcolumn) were analyzed to visualize trends in student majors. Over 71% of all students indicatedtheir major was and would be the same at each of the three time points (n = 219), but there arestill many students who indicate a change in major or a planned change in major (n = 89
approach and the other sectionnot receiving the pedagogy. Formative and summative assessment results of the impactedclasses (two+ in each discipline) should demonstrate the “enhanced student learning andmotivation” with course grades compared to control group or previous course administrations.Additionally, course evaluations, and measurements of cognition, engagement, and motivationwill be determined using the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaires (MSLQ) [24]amended with specifically designed additional items or measures to capture the project'sintervention.During the planning phase for the project, the following criteria were developed for selectingcourses in each discipline for the pilot test implementation of ECP in Spring 2020: 1
reinforce progress, and scaffolded learning with increasing challenges. Further itemssuch as a point system and leaderboards are planned in future work. Gamification has frequentlybeen found to improve learning and engagement [11].)Prior controlled, randomized experiments have shown a 1.21σ improvement in learning onwriting nodal analysis equations and identifying elements in series and parallel in a laboratory-based experiment and a corresponding improvement of 0.91σ in student motivation [3, 4]. Aclassroom-based assessment in Fall 2014 using random assignment to compare this system tocomplete nodal and mesh analysis exercises to using the commercial WileyPLUS system found a0.41σ improvement in that homework score (p < 0.008) [7]. It was also
those who were scheduled to travel but were unable to do so. If requested by thepartner, planned on-campus meetings were shifted to a videoconference format (as were allremaining faculty interviews).B. Tenured/tenure-track faculty demographics in College of Engineering and Applied ScienceDespite multiple programmatic efforts over more than a decade, the demographics of thecollege’s faculty has remained stubbornly unrepresentative of its diversifying student body andthe diversifying pool of individuals who are earning the doctoral degrees in engineering andapplied science typically required for tenure-track faculty positions in the CEAS.1. Gender of facultyAcross all CEAS T/TT ranks, the percentage of women faculty has increased by only 5