. In these open-ended spaces, students experience uncertainty about projectgoals, roles and designs, and how learning paths take shape moment to moment is unclear, oftendiffering student to student.In project-based curricula, much is unknown, unspecified, and ambiguous, conceptually andrelationally. Learners must tolerate much of this ambiguity and select what and when they callattention to uncertainty – places where they see fault or limitation in their own or the group’sdesigns, knowledge, or plan. In this analysis we saw that when facing much uncertainty - oftenacross many aspects of a project - how students select what to bring attention to, and how theyrespond when uncertainty is raised by others, cannot be well predicted by the material
demonstratestheir competencies in five areas: research ability, interdisciplinary andmultidisciplinary perspectives, innovation and entrepreneurship mindset, globaland intercultural competence, and social responsibility. We envision that,ultimately, students will begin creating working portfolios in their first or secondyear to both plan and reflect, and then curate a showcase ePortfolio in their senioryear. As a pilot in the program’s first year, a small cohort of seniors was recruitedto reflect back on their four years and create showcase ePortfolios.In this paper we provide an overview of the importance of reflection andintegrative learning in higher education and the uses and efficacy of ePortfolios tofoster those processes. We explain the core
, tools for computational modeling, Numerical Linear Algebra, microprocessors, artificial intelligence, scientific image analysis, compilers, exascale programing, and courses in program and algorithm analysis.Julie Rojewski, Michigan State University Julie Rojewski is the Program Manager of the Michigan State University Broadening Experience in Sci- entific Training (BEST) grant (funded by NIH). Previously, she was the Director of the MSU ADVANCE grant (funded by NSF), and has worked in several dimensions of graduate student and faculty development around teaching, mentoring, leadership, communications, and teamwork. She has a particular professional expertise with program planning, management, and evaluation and an
educational virtual reality game, the Design Review Simulator (DRS) with the aim to helpstudents build design review skills. The game was designed to challenge the students in findingand evaluating various types of design mistakes. In this paper, we discuss the development of thegame and frame it in light of the existing literature to further understand the value of VR in thedesign process. In addition to the development experience, we offer a plan for the implementationand evaluation of the game with an assessment instrument designed for the game.2. LITERATURE REVIEW2.1. Design Review and Visualization With the growing adoption of building information modeling (BIM) approaches, severalinnovative technology applications for various use cases
student and faculty development around teaching, mentoring, leadership, communications, and teamwork. She has a particular professional expertise with program planning, management, and evaluation and an academic interest in leadership de- velopment in academic contexts. She holds a M.A. in Education from Michigan State University and an M.A. in English from The Ohio State University.Mrs. Astri Briliyanti, Michigan State University Astri is a graduate student in the Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University. She previously worked as a researcher and urban planner consultant in Indonesia, helping the government with the creation of spatial and development plan, as well as policy analysis and
Education, American Evaluation Association, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and Academy of Human Resource Development.Jordan Orion James, University of New Mexico Jordan O. James is a Native American Ph.D. student in the Organization, Information, and Learning Sci- ences (OILS) program as well as a lecturer at the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning in the Community & Regional Planning program. He has served as a graduate research assis- tant on an NSF-funded project, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments, and has been recognized as a Graduate Studies student spotlight recipient and teaching scholar. Jordan studies learning in authentic, real-world conditions utilizing
development and project management. Ms. Koechner co-founded the Khoros Group/Khoral Research and was key in the design and implementation of the Khoros software system. She is the founder of eN- ova Solutions, LLC. Ms. Koechner has traveled extensively and has a broad perspective of cultures and insights into societies. She is proactive about the environment, conservation, sustainability and human rights. She was a member of the planning and organizing committees for the www.weef-gedc2018.og world conference where the theme was ”Peace Engineering”. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 How do we frame Peace Engineering education? A complex, but
, Computer Graphics, Materials Science and laboratory courses. Since 2015 she has been actively involved in the University of Miami College of Engineering’s ”Redefining Engineering Education” strategic plan on educational innovation. As part of this plan, Dr. Basalo worked with 2 other faculty members to organize inaugural Senior Design Expo in May 2017, an exposition where over 200 senior students showcased their Capstone projects to the University of Miami community, alumni and industry leaders. Starting in 2016 and through her work with the University of Miami’s Engaged Faculty Fellowship program, Dr. Basalo incorporated an academic service component into the final project for a sophomore-level Measurements Lab course
objectives and associatedlearning actions were chosen for student educational program development and assessment: Objective #1: Students will identify safety hazards in the wind turbine environment with these learning actions: o Students will examine and assess safety conditions in the virtual wind turbine. o Students will select appropriate personal protective equipment. Objective #2: Students will apply task-based hazard assessment with this learning action: o Students will examine a work plan and assess potential hazards for each task in virtual scenarios. Objective #3: Students will create and follow a safety plan and correct safety procedures with this learning
summaries, technical descriptions, reports) Professional writing (emails, memos) Oral communication (technical, formal presentations in front of an audience) Oral communication (communicating ideas to other engineers) Oral communication (communicating ideas to stakeholders or the public)Project Management Skills Planning a schedule to meet deadlines Prioritizing tasks Delegating tasks across team members Organizing resources and information Making decisions collectively and effectivelyInterpersonal and Teamwork Skills Dealing with difficulties effectively Listening and being open-minded and respectful when disagreeing Encouraging everyone to contribute ideas Showing concern for the feelings of
settings, American, Canadian, and British universities are themost committed to its implementation. Nevertheless, Saudi Arabian, African, and Asianuniversities are also adopting lean principles in their practice6.Both newly developed and established administrative processes are potential opportunities forimprovements7. Most projects focus on operations such as financial transactions, facilitiesmanagement, human resources and library services. Based on documented results by earlyadopters in higher education, clear continuous improvement is part and parcel of organizationalstrategic planning and applied within daily operations at forward-thinking institutions.2Improvements from lean in higher education include reduction of waiting time for
more approachable to the middle school or high school students. Thesepresentations were practiced for the group during weekly seminars. After receiving feedbackfrom peers and educators, the pairs updated their presentations and took them to classrooms toshare with students. Grad Student STEM Share program provided several leadershipdevelopment opportunities of specific and translatable skills including communication, teaching,coordination of meetings and events, follow-up, teamwork, planning, presentation skills, andnetworking, as well as optional leadership coaching. Detailed feedback from the graduatestudents and the teachers whose classrooms they visited was positive and will be presented inthis paper, as well as details on the pilot year
interpretations or meanings towards academicdifferent situations. Assumptions activities. The different collective importance or reputation that faculty and Values administrators attribute to the academic activities. Process Design The planned steps to enact instructional change.Change Management: Factors
(seeemergent codes above in Table 4 for examples). Going forward, although further validation isrequired, it is expected that the elements within the Faculty Innovation Canvas will be easilyunderstood and recognized by faculty and administrators using the canvas tool to plan ordocument their own innovation.The participants’ responses also helped further contextualize some Faculty Innovation Canvaselements within the everyday realities of faculty members’ experiences, particularly those relatedto Key Resources and Costs / Constraints, and Fulfillment / Recognition. Participants generallyseemed unconcerned about the availability of funding, perhaps because they did not perceive agreat need for, or shortage of it. By contrast, and in line with prior
, depending on the round ofstakeholder feedback and commensurate to the time commitment required. We plan to expandour recruitment efforts in 2019 to increase survey participation/completion numbers frommarginalized students. In the remainder of this section, each step of the instrument developmentprocess is summarized briefly. For a more detailed description of the process see [10].Theoretical Constructs and Item Bank DevelopmentThe initial item bank was based on the MCCS, which was developed from a multi-site case studyof student support practitioners and students involved in six different student support centersserving STEM students across four U.S. universities [1],[9]. For the development of an itembank, we leveraged the theoretical constructs
communication is important for presentations and meetings that engineers will often take part in. Presentations should be informative well-planned, and brief in order to hold the attention of the room. Graphical communication is important as well because engineers deal in numbers and physical objects. Numerical data can be confusing and unhelpful if not presented well. Diagrams and sketches of physical parts need to be accurate and standardized so they can be understood by people who fill different roles on a project.”Q2: What skill(s) do you think you need to work on most and WHY?When coding the results to this question we foundalmost every student felt the need to choose one skill SKILLS STUDENTS SELFthat
/communication[2]. For projects that havelonger time constraints, the engineering process may be cyclical in nature because of theopportunity for student engineers to improve their design by cycling back to an earlier stage. TheNASA Engineering Science and Technology model is a six-stage cyclical design processfeaturing the stages: 1) Ask, 2) Imagine, 3) Plan, 4) Create, 5) Test and 6) Improve [3].Students using the Atman or NASA model typically begin by identifying problems andconstraints to design around. In both, they collect information, consider design alternatives andfinally create and test a particular solution. The Makerspace also implemented differencesbetween the two engineering design processes into the curriculum. The additional emphasis
points. At the end of the three year competitioncycle, the team that has accumulated the greatest number of points with respect to the possible3000 points will be declared the overall winner of AutoDrive. The 1000 points available duringthe first year were divided into “static events” (400 points), “technical reports” (150 points), and“dynamic events” (450 points).The purpose of the static events and technical reports were to provide the Teams with an earlyopportunity to communicate their design process and engineering plans to event organizers inadvance of the on-site competition in Yuma. All of the static events and technical reports haddeadlines in advance of the April 2018 competition, during which the dynamic events wereperformed. The
positive learning outcomes for students,but clearly guide faculty to plan carefully, as it is not just doing S-L, but how and what studentslearn depends on the quality achieved. The goal in this work was to consider that the type ofneighborhood could have a positive, negative or neutral effect on learning and students’perception and continued interest in community service.Even in 2006, the idea that the hallmark of S-L was its focus on relationship and reciprocity wasbecoming recognized. [9] Though not the main focus of this work, being able to really give andtake requires knowledge, comfort, closeness and acceptance, which may come if students feellike they are a part of the neighborhood, rather than merely visitors. By this method, the
Students for Humanity (SESH) which assists with post-earthquake recovery in developing nations. In addition, she has previously been engaged in Cal Poly’s Society of Women Engineers colle- giate chapter as a leader and as an advocate for women in STEM to elementary school, middle school, and high school students in California. After graduation, she plans to pursue a masters degree in structural engineering to further her understanding of the interaction between architecture, structures, and construc- tion.Mr. Mark William Wright LEED Green Associate, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Mark Wright is an undergraduate architectural engineering student at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity, San
second course uses Javato explore the event-driven graphical user interface paradigm through object-orientedprogramming practices. The students enrolled in these courses are primarily computerengineering and computer science majors.The second set of participants are the project clients. Over the four years covered by this study,four different sets of clients were used. In 2014, the clients were engineering education studentsdeveloping materials in support of educational outreach activities. The software applicationswere designed to augment lesson plans developed as part of a series of teacher workshops thatthe students helped to deliver in the Dominican Republic. Due to the departure of the instructorleading the then-annual trips, in 2015 the
) Program planning and execution support, and (3) Classroom and programperformance support. These categories led to development and refinement of a college levelpedagogical practice taxonomy and inventory which was used in a second and third stage of theresearch in which data was collected on 4929 community college students in STEM majors. Theintent of the research is to determine the role of students’ creativity and propensity of innovationon their persistence in STEM and the impact that use of particular pedagogical support practiceshad on persistence, creativity and propensity for innovation in STEM. Structural equation models (SEMs) have been developed and updated with multiplerounds of data collection. These models have been used for
4th yearlearners together. Seniors have a higher level of performance expectation, including leadership ontheir project teams. In Design, student engineers learn and practice the essential elements ofengineering design: scoping, modeling, experimentation, analysis, use of modern tools,multi-disciplinary systems view, creativity, safety, business plans, andglobal/societal/environmental impacts.The project problems are sourced from industry clients or proposed by student engineers. Studentteams of 3 -5 members each write a Team Contract, occupy Project Rooms, and work togetherapproximately 15 hours per week to complete the project each semester. They select roles such asProject Manager, Client Communications, Documentation Manager, and Research
; andnow participants require a drone license, insurance, and a considerable understanding of flightsafety issues when operating these drones. In addition, most of the farm fields we are dealingwith are located in remote locations, far away from the nearest airfield, thus posing an additionalset of time and logistics challenges. Nonetheless, we usually spend far more time doingpaperwork and planning then actual flying. To support our flying effort, we required that severalstudents learn the basics of flight safety and obtain their Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)Part 1071 license before operating a drone over a farm field. This license designates them asRemote Pilots-in-Command (RPICs). During the first year, one student completed his Part
Open Days at theuniversity presented their work to other companies that were not directly involved with theirown sponsors. (iv) Connecting to your purposeIf any organisation defines itself by its mission, vision and values, its’ business plan is howthese are implemented. In order to instil a sense of ownership of the student’s PhD anddevelopment journey we have used the metaphor of letting them become the CEO of theirown small company, ‘My PhD Ltd’. Both as an identity definer as well as an impetusforwards, they worked on a business model for the company for a number of months, usingthe template provided in [24] adapted to ‘Business Canvas You’, updating the differentaspects of their ‘company’ (e.g. suppliers, customers, communication
Dean and Nariman Farvardin Professor of Engineering at the Clark School on Jan- uary 5, 2009, having come to the school in 1995 as an assistant professor and served as chair of the school’s Department of Aerospace Engineering from 2006 to 2009. As dean, Pines has led the devel- opment of the Clark School’s current strategic plan and achieved notable successes in key areas such as improving teaching in fundamental undergraduate courses and raising student retention; achieving suc- cess in national and international student competitions; giving new emphasis to sustainability engineering and service learning; promoting STEM education among high school students; increasing the impact of research programs; and expanding
to practice systems thinking and apply the Vee-Model.The course deliverables listed in Table 2 includes: Project Plan and Journal (22.5%),Communication Skills (47.5%) and Technical Merit (30%). Students must take an ill-definedproblem to implement a proof-of-concept solution. A detailed description of the weeklydeliverables is given elsewhere and will not be described here due to space limitations. TheCritical Design Review (CDR) rubric was also developed to balance the course weightingbetween system-level thinking fostered by weekly deliverables and acquired technical skillsetsfrom the MSEE program. The weekly deliverables are guided by the Vee Model [9] [10] [11].Several years ago, the College of Engineering (COE) Master of Science in
and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions. 4. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences. 5. An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. 6. An ability to recognize the ongoing need for additional knowledge and locate, evaluate, integrate, and apply this knowledge appropriately. 7. An ability to function effectively on teams that establish goals, plan tasks, meet deadlines, and analyze risk and uncertainty.”Outcomes 2, 4, 7 pertain to
. 16. Learning a foreign language other than Spanish is more .671 .548 useful than Spanish. 6. I would like to have more space in my schedule for foreign .453b .553 .612 language and culture classes. 2. I plan to graduate with a minor in a language other than .501 .696 Spanish. 22. I am interested in travelling outside the U.S. .782 .724 20. I want to study abroad in a country where English is .306b .780 .660 not the main spoken language. 23. I like getting to know people from other countries. .637 .509 Percentage of variance explained by
) described thatengineering design is considered a team process in multiple socio-technological dimensions, andwhich is also reflected in the ABET Student Outcomes. The ABET Student Outcomes includethe abilities to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, createa collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives (3.5)and to communicate effectively with a range of audiences (3.3) (Engineering AccreditationCommission, 2017). Furthermore, social cognitive and constructivist theories highlight theimportance of social activities in design learning (Ertmer & Newby, 2008). Accordingly,engineering design is usually taught in team-based learning environments, and students’ teamingis