participants, as one noted saying thatleadership coaching, “Relatively independent, but improved me in general, including [within theprogram].” Value of leadership coaching sessions Experience visiting the classroom Classroom supply ordering Lunch food Quality of other teams' practice presentations Feedback from your practice presentation Communcation from your teacher Communication from your partner/s 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Excellent Good Okay Below average PoorFigure 3. Participants’ ratings of components of the program, N=34. The 15
satisfaction 4.6/5) and believed that the camp helped them significantly in understandingtopics in nanotechnology (4.8/5). The most popular activity was the Scanning ElectronMicroscope when the students were amazed by how different things looked under highmagnifications.References 1. Prins, R. J., MacDonald, S., Leech, J., Brumfield, J., Ellis, M., Smith, L., and Shaeffer, J., Techfacturing: A Summer Day Camp Designed to Promote STEM Interest in Middle School Students through Exposure to Local Manufacturing Facilities, 2010 ASEE Southeast Section Conference. 2. Sala, A., Sitaram, P., and Spendlove, T., Stimulating an Interest in Engineering Through an ”Explore Engineering and Technology” Summer Camp for High School
knowledgeinto new frameworks.Flexibility in topic, discussion, structure and partners is key to providing a meaningful classroomexperience for students, while also teaching engineers to remain nimble, contextual and criticalin thought as they evaluate solutions to a design problem.Incorporation of multiple professional and peer viewpoints, in the form of professional advisorsand alumni mentors, gives students diverse perspectives as well as comfortable resources toconsult outside of the classroom, and demonstrates that many approaches can exist in tackling adesign challenge.Bibliography 1. Atman, C. J.; Adams, R. S.; Cardella, M. E.; Turns, J.; Mosborg, S.; Saleem, J. Engineering Design Processes: A Comparison of Students and Expert
. Forexample, one participant wrote that s/he liked, “the emphasis of communication in the graded portions [ofthe service-learning module], this is something that Engineering classes do a very bad job at teaching even though itis essential in CE”.Finally, a large number of the student participants said a major benefit of the experience was theopportunity to get to know their classmates and professors better. “This also helped me meet and bondwith classmates, which means more study buddies!”, wrote one participant. Other examples stated, “Duringthe build day, it was rewarding to work with our peers in a challenging setting outside of school. We were able toapply skills in leadership, creativity, and initiative” and, “Volunteering and working with our
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Gordon EngineeringInstitute of Leadership program is a well-established co-curricular programTechnology targeting undergraduate students. Students work experientially to(2007) develop hands on leadership skills, building towards a competency model, and a small subset complete a second year as senior fellows, running leadership labs and mentoring younger students to “learn by doing.”Northeastern Northeastern’s Gordon Engineering Leadership program offers aUniversity (2008) customized masters degree or a stand-alone graduate certificate for master’s students. The program offers courses on leadership and
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thetop.AcknowledgementThe authors gratefully acknowledge the funding that makes this work possible from the NationalScience Foundation's Directorate of Undergraduate Education's STEM Talent ExpansionProgram Grant No. DUE-1068453. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation. References1. Downey, G.L., Lucena, J.C., Moskal, B.M., Parkhurst, R., Bigley, T., Hays, C., Jesiek, B.K., Kelly, L., Miller,J., Ruff, S., Lehr, J.L. and Nichols-Belo, A. "The Globally Competent Engineer: Working Effectively with PeopleWho Define Problems Differently." Journal of Engineering Education. 2006; 95(2): 107-22.2. Hurtado, S., Alvarez, C.L
see from the above sample card, learning blocks have various states listed. Below is thelist of state and level each block can show: Learning Block states Not Started – Designates that a camper has not yet started any challenges within this block Draft- Camper has submitted a first draft design of a challenge at the specified level Completed (Green Check) – Camper has finished the challenge(s) and has shown mastery of block at the specified level; this status will change to Draft of the next higher level once a new challenge is started and a draft is submitted for it Learning Block Levels Young Explorer – Most basic level deals with demonstrating basic content knowledge
understand why there is a need to focus on this group. At least three reasons underscore theneed for doing so: Our sources for the future Science and Engineering (S&E) workforce areuncertain; the demographics of our domestic population are shifting dramatically; and diversityin S&E is a strength that benefits both diverse groups and the nation as a whole16. According theBureau of Labor Statistics, for the year of 2014, the percentage of African Americans andHispanics in architecture and engineering occupations are 5.2 and 8.2, respectively1. Thesepercentages are not increasing as fast as average, based on the population of these ethnic groupsin the United States. According to the 2014 United States Census, 13.2% of the United
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, almostexclusively use a bottom-up approach in teaching, that is, from general knowledge, first, to detailshow to use this general knowledge next, which is also true in software engineering9-10 . TheFAST Learning method definitely represents something opposite, that is, a top-down approach.Students are presented with solutions first, and learn by generalization, that is, proceed from detailto abstraction.ACKNOWLEDGMENT The following students in the Software Engineering program at Florida Gulf Coast Universityare gratefully acknowledged for their contributions to the projects: S. Curry, M. Evans, S.Gafford, A. Hughes, E. Hutchinson, S. Pais and R. Sinjari. Thanks are due to Dr. Anna Koufakoufor using information from one of the projects in her software
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that they wanted to avoid keepinga design notebook, which is a requirement for the EPICS class. After discussions with the currentstudent leaders, it was determined that the actual differential of work between EWB-USA andEPICS is not that significant and the benefits of the additional accountability of being graded forcredit motivated the change in policy to limit the number of audits.The EPICS curricular and assessment processes aligned very well with the EWB-USA structureand philosophy. Both EPICS and EWB-USA promote and rely on strong student leaders. TheEPICS structure did not reduce the student leadership and it allowed the inclusion of theprofessional mentors. The relationship between the professional mentor(s) and the faculty
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argue from differentpositions is needed to diagnose the environment and propose the best solution17.Decision-making problems usually require that problem solvers select a solution from a set ofalternative solutions2. Traditional conceptions of decision making posit a set of alternativecriteria that decision makers work through in order to identify the optimal solution. Thosecriteria may be provided to the problem solver(s), or the solver(s) may have to identify the mostrelevant criteria. Everyday life is replete with decision-making problems. Businesses also dailysolve many decision-making problems. Though these problems typically require selecting onesolution, the number of decision factors to be considered in deciding among those solutions as