: cultivating student motivation in the interdisciplinary and international contextAbstractThe National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and ResearchTraineeship (IGERT) Program: Global Traineeship in Sustainable Electronics” brought togetheran interdisciplinary group of students to study the environmental, economic, and societal aspectsof the global electronics lifecycle. There were three cohorts altogether, but the dynamics of eachgroup were substantially different. This third cohort actively sought additional experiencesoutside the original planned courses and trips. The aim of this work is to glean insight into whatand how specific curriculum design may promote the learning experiences in which students takeinitiative beyond
purposeful ‘creativeproblem-solving’ that is needs-driven, encompassing all phases of problem recognition,formulation, and solution. In its broadest sense, the essence of creative engineering practiceencompasses the functions of needs-recognition, vision, conceptual planning and creative designfor the generation and development of new technology and executive engineering leadershiproles of organization and responsible leadership to bring new, improved, and breakthrough ‘ideasand concepts’ to practical use in the creative solution of the hopes, wants, and needs of people Page 13.561.4for the advancement and improvement of the quality of life (both
DP-2 Table of Design Constraints Table 3 Identify user needs DP-3 Survey of User Needs Short written report 4 Identify design specifications DP-4 Table of Design Objectives Table 5 Analyze problem and context DP-5 Design Problem Analysis Short written report 6 Plan the design process DP-6 Design Project Plan Chart DP-6A Design Project Proposal Formal written report DP-6B Executive Summary One-page write-up DP-6C Design Project Proposal Oral presentation 7 Develop concepts and options DP-7 Pugh Evaluation Matrix Matrix
a longitudinal tracking assessment. The annual evaluation has been an assessmentfixture of the program since the mentoring program began in 1998. It asks participants questionsabout the frequency and type of contact between mentors and mentees, questions related toperceived impacts on retention and career planning, as well as others ways participants feel theprogram may have benefited them. The university’s student database is used to follow the Page 12.1059.2degree progress of mentoring students. The student database allows program staff to collectaccurate enrollment data about graduate students. Additionally, it allows program staff to
laboratory”. Thisfocus put the classroom as the primary zone of impact and Scholars’ studies followed a“scholarship of merit” model (e.g., a traditional model of conducting research). For the secondISEE, the theme expanded the zone of impact to the program or college level (“campus as lab”).For this cycle, a “scholarship of impact” was the central format. “Impact studies” emphasize aprocess of bridging research and practice and involve using research findings to develop animpact plan at the program level. Impact plans included information on potential impactnetworks or pathways, as well as the needs and communication practices of people within thosenetworks. For the third cycle, the theme is “nation as lab,” reflecting an interest at the hostschool
uniquesupervisors from 22 distinct academic departments, and across theoretical, clinical, design andlaboratory settings, demonstrating a vast breadth of project scope. Outside of the student-supervisor relationship, students are provided with assignment guidelines, workshops, andrubrics to scaffold the documentation and communication of the research, which includes fourdeliverables: a proposal, an interim report, presentation and final research report. The statedlearning objectives, taken from the course syllabus, are as follows: • Write a strong research proposal, identifying and developing a gap in a science/engineering related field, and develop a plan/method for addressing that gap • Conduct and write a literature review, summarizing the state
skills learned duringthe professional development and remained motivated and excited about their participation in theprogram, monthly classroom visits and mentoring via the program listserve as well as email and phonecalls have proven invaluable. Recommended strategies for classroom visits are a combination of co-teaching, modeling, and observation/feedback.Sample Student Products Attached ≠ Just Passing Through: Exploring Membranes ≠ Just Passing Through: Designing Model Membranes PLAN ≠ Just Passing Through: Designing Model Membranes CREATE ≠ Student Photos o Lesson One: Designing Model Membranes o Lesson Two: Inventors of Tomorrow
materials, tools, and machines needed coherent written, oral, or visual to construct a prototype of a given engineering design. presentation. (2.1)2.5 Explain how such design features as size, shape, weight, ≠ Develop plans, including function, and cost limitations would affect the drawings with measurements and construction of a given prototype. details of construction, and construct a model of the solution2.6 Identify the five elements of a universal systems model: to a problem, exhibiting a degree goal, inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback
).Personal CharacteristicsInnovation OrientationThe scale of Innovation Orientation was adapted from Scott and Bruce’s measures ofindividuals’ innovative behavior17. The scale includes six items that ask participants to rate theextent to which they engage in a list of behaviors. Example items are “Search out newtechnologies, processes, techniques, and/or product ideas” and “Develop adequate plans andschedules for the implementation of new ideas.” The items were measured on a five-point Likertscale with responses ranging from 1 (almost never) to 5 (almost always).Intentional Self-RegulationThe sub-scales Goal Selection, Goal Optimization, Goal Compensation, and Loss-Based GoalSelection were selected from the Entrepreneurial Intentional Self
plan is presented forintegrating teamwork development into an engineering program to prepare graduates forsubsequent development of high performing teams in the professional workplace. A case isdiscussed to illustrate how team development is achieved in a project-based curriculum setting.IntroductionThe great engineering challenges of the twenty-first century are complex and multidisciplinary innature [1]. Engineers engaged in addressing problems of societal concern that have economicimpact will necessarily be members of multidisciplinary teams that bring diverse expertise andperspectives to the problem solving process. In general, a team is “a small number of people withcomplementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, set of
Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationaccreditation) will be discussed further in this paper. Students undertaking BEng (IEng) awardswho successfully complete the final year project are required to demonstrate the ability to: • Undertake a risk assessment of a project. • Undertake a search of information/literature related to a specified topic. • Appraise relevant practical techniques to be used to obtain specified data in order to achieve set objectives. • Formulate a project specification including a work plan to achieve desired project objectives
the course covers the skills of determining site layout and access,establishing site contours and drainage, installation of utilities, elementary surveying, creation ofsite models using advanced civil engineering software, and the development of environmentalimpact statements 22. The course textbook is the Dewberry Company’s Land DevelopmentHandbook, Third edition. The course is structured around the seven steps of land developmentoutlined by Dewberry: 1) feasibility and site analysis, 2) programming, 3) conceptual design,4) schematic design, 5) final design, 6) plans submission and permitting, and 7) construction23.Course content is taught using traditional classroom instruction, homework problems, exams,and a major engineer design project
students' intentions towardsgraduate engineering studies, as well as investigating the lived experiences of engineeringgraduate and undergraduate students at the Faculty across their intersectional identity factors.This paper specifically draws from the survey’s initial segment, including data on participants'demographics, educational backgrounds, undergraduate participants’ future graduate study plans,and graduate participants’ re-evaluation of their decisions to continue graduate studies. Over 600students participated, with 413 responses analyzed quantitatively, focusing on the first 26questions to assess decision influences. Statistical analyses, including Pearson’s Chi-SquaredTest and logistic regression, were applied to pinpoint significant
, and principles of engineering, science, and technology to solve broadly defined mathematics engineering problems appropriate to the discipline 1 Apply material from their discipline to the 1 Apply material from their discipline to the design design of a project of a project 2 Identify and acquires new knowledge as a 2 Apply an appropriate area of mathematics in the part of the problem-solving/design process planning or design of a portion of a facility, structure, system, or product 3 Apply an appropriate area
to the project. Teams areexpected to meet outside of lab to develop a project plan.Students work in teams of four to design and implement experimental plans that answer thequestions posed by Chemprojects. Typically, there is time to only run three Chemprojects in asemester. Five Chemprojects that have been implemented in our General Chemistry course (notall in one semester) are described below. Chemprojects are structured so that the students mustunderstand the principles covered in lecture in order to accomplish the project. An underlyingpremise of this approach is that creating this “need to know” will enhance student motivation forunderstanding General Chemistry principles.• The Synthesis, Characterization, and Scale-up of a
structures and methodologies of systems engineering as a holistic basis for managing complexity and sustainability in engineering practice. 2.2 e) Applies formal systems engineering methods to address the planning and execution of complex, problem solving and engineering projects. 2.3 a) Proficiently applies technical knowledge and open ended problem solving skills as well as appropriate tools and resources to design components, elements, systems, plant, facilities and/or processes to
planning, and 3. Measure improvements in students' intrinsic motivation.This paper describes how our workshops were tailored to students already participating inundergraduate research to provide guidance on leveraging an entrepreneurial mindset in theirresearch projects. Addressing previously identified gaps, these workshops are designed to beflexibly implemented in diverse settings. They can be offered as stand-alone workshops,facilitated either in person or online, or integrated into research-focused courses.Table 1. Project team Institution Region Type Size Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Midwest Private University Small University of Illinois
evolution is not without barriers to entry andassociated risks.The objective of this paper is to share the experiences of three established civil engineeringfaculty and their mentor who are within two years of receiving their first NSF grants to supportEER projects at their home institution. Barriers to entry, challenges, and the lessons learnedassociated with their growth as emerging engineering education researchers are discussed.Strategies and resources are provided to assist new engineering educators to: lobby forinstitutional support, secure initial extramural funding, initiate collaborations, formulate short-and long-term career plans, build an Individual Development Plan (IDP), and develop aneffective mentor-mentee relationship with an
. When we formulated the structure of the workshop, wetherefore built the topic of intersectionality into our plans, and attempted to live out thoseprinciples in our design.Workshop GoalsWith this in mind, we sought to bring together experts across a range of computing, engineering,and related technical and data-based disciplines as well as experts from other fields in the socialsciences, including education and the learning sciences, to build an agenda for inclusive policy,practices, and research for TNB computing students. Our specific goals were to: ● Define near- and long-term agenda items for intersectional research about the inclusion of TNB learners in computing for the Computing Education Research (CER) community ● Advance
this competition. An initial investmentpurchased 10 robot kits and a competition field. This outfits a class size of 25 students workingin 5 teams. The first-year implementation cost was approximately $1200 per student and thesecond and third-year cost under $400 per student. With the outbreak of the COVID pandemicand safety restrictions occurring just prior to the first year of implementation, this choice wastimely and allowed the college to provide a capstone project for a full class of students. Facultyhad the ability to control and adapt the project as needed. During the second-year, restrictionseased, and faculty again adapted the project. All students were required to participate as amember of a team. Each team planned, designed, built
course up a level.The teaching pyramid can also be used as part of assessing the teaching center. Are thereprograms that support faculty at each level? Do the programs help faculty or courses move up alevel over time? Are any faculty consistently in the lowest level and how is that beingaddressed? Are there any patterns of courses or classrooms often showing up at the lowest levelsand what support is needed to make changes?In summary, this paper shares a teaching pyramid framework for thinking about teachingimprovements, for planning programming to meet faculty where they are with enable actionablenext steps in moving towards teaching excellence, and for assessing the teaching center.IntroductionThe mission of our teaching center is to improve
onengineering and applied science. In fact, most educators trained in humanities, arts, and socialsciences work in a single department.We planned these activities in response to significant recent interest in pedagogies inflected bySTS for engineering students [1, 2, 3]. Such efforts are often strongly interdisciplinary, crossingboundaries between engineering and humanities fields. There are some signs that engineeringeducation, on the whole, considers interdisciplinary education to be useful for students: evidenceof these considerations include ABET criteria [4], curricular and co-curricular requirements ofengineering degrees, and pedagogical activities in which different disciplinary knowledgessupport the integration of “sociotechnical” themes [5, 6
allow students to give backto the community, such as local volunteering or STEM initiatives for younger students. Stressrelief events were defined as those intending to increase the mental well-being of students, suchas yoga or painting. And finally, general information events were defined as anything outside ofthe defined categories such as financial planning or other specialty topics.We also asked open-ended questions about what students would hope to gain from participatingin a GradWIE group, what types of resources or graduate school information they wish theyknew when they started their degree, and if there was anything else they wanted to share. Thecomplete survey can be found in the Appendix.ParticipantsThis survey was sent to a pre
“welfare”, “global”, and “cultural” were added. Thesechanges indicate that ABET shifted focus regarding what is expected of students in the designprocess, which appears to align with The National Academies of Sciences’ EnvironmentalEngineering Grand Challenges for the 21st Century [6]. (6) For the transition between SO (d) to SO 5, the concept of “multi-disciplinary” waseliminated and instead replaced with team-related concepts of “leadership”, “collaborative”,“inclusive”, “goals”, “tasks”, and “objectives”. Additionally, the student actions “provide”,“create”, “establish”, “plan”, and “meet” were added. These changes indicate that ABETredefined how it expects graduating engineering students to function on a team. These changescan also be
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students through a series of activities and resources todevelop research skills and knowledge [46]. AMPP selected four of the manuals’ core principlesas focus areas of training: developing effective communication in the mentoring relationship,aligning expectations between mentors and mentees, fostering mentees’ research independence,and promoting mentees’ professional development. AMMP’s unique approach is at the program design. The program is organized into aseries of five parallel training sessions for mentors and mentees, each session addressing a singletraining theme: (1) effective communication, (2) researcher independence, (3) expectationalignment, (4) networking, and (5) individual development plan. Mentors are introduced to thetopic
Paper ID #37291Designing International Research Experiences to EngageUnderrepresented Minority Undergraduates and IntroduceThem to Graduate SchoolMichael Preuss (Co-founder and Lead Consultant) Michael Preuss, EdD, is the Co-founder and Lead Consultant for Exquiri Consulting, LLC. His primary focus is providing assistance to grant project teams in planning and development, through external evaluation, and as publication support. Most of his work is on STEM education and advancement projects and completed for Minority-Serving Institutions. He also conducts research regarding higher education focused on the needs and
Paper ID #38326S-STEM: Creating Retention and Engagement forAcademically Talented Engineers - successes and challengesIndira Chatterjee (Associate Dean of Engineering)Kelsey Scalaro (Graduate Student) Kelsey is an engineering education Ph.D. student at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has a master's degree in mechanical engineering and 5 years of experience working in the aerospace industry. Her research focuses on identity development and motivation. After graduation, she plans on teaching project-oriented mechanical engineering classes or returning to industry working in training or retention.Ann-Marie
solidunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibilities.Civil Engineering Program Learning OutcomesThe program learning outcomes set to help graduates of the civil engineering program to gaincompetence, and to apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. The plan wasdesigned to enable students to gain the skills to design and conduct experimental testing,simulate, analyze, and interpret data and can design a system to meet the set needs withinrealistic boundaries such as environmental, social, economic, political, ethical, health and safety,and sustainability. Students are expected to have the capacity to work effectively onmultidisciplinary teams, to develop the skills to classify, articulate, and solve engineeringdiscrete problems
University with specializa- tion in Construction Management. His research focus is in the area of contract administration on heavy civil projects. His teaching areas include 1. introduction to the built environment and construction man- agement, 2. construction materials and methods, 3. construction equipment, 4. building construction cost estimating, 5. heavy civil construction cost estimating, 6. project planning, scheduling, and control, 7. temporary structures, and 8. contract changes and claims management.Mr. Chris Souder, M.S. Chris Souder graduated with an undergraduate degree in Construction Management in 1988 before going to work for Kiewit Pacific Co. in Northern California. Chris had a successful sixteen year