Paper ID #47096Fruitful Endeavors: Continuous Peer Feedback to Develop Positive TeamDynamicsBrian Patrick O’Connell, Northeastern University Dr. O’Connell is an associate teaching professor in the First-Year Engineering program at Northeastern University. He studied at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2006 then worked in industry as a Mechanical Engineer working on ruggedized submarine optronic systems. He returned to academia in 2011 at Tufts University planning to work towards more advanced R&D but fell for engineering education and educational technologies. His research now focuses on developing
resources required to implement a set ofsix hands-on statics activities. It is well established that active and hands-on learning canimprove student outcomes. However, planning, resourcing, and implementation can be a barrierto their use. Our goal is to lower the implementation barrier for busy faculty that are hesitant toadopt active learning despite awareness of the research. We have created an easily accessiblerepository of the resources required to source, assemble, and implement Statics Shoebox Kits.Five criteria were considered in the development of the kits and activities. 1) Very little prep timeshould be required from the instructor. 2) The materials should be readily available, portable,inexpensive, and reusable. 3) Activity worksheets
graduation in 2025, Gracie will be pursuing a master’s degree in structural engineering and plans to further continue her education with a PhD in engineering education.Hayden J Wulf, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Hayden Wulf is a fourth-year civil engineering undergraduate at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL). She has been an undergraduate research assistant within the Engineering Education Research department at UNL for the past two years under the guidance of Dr. Grace Panther and Dr. Heidi Diefes-Dux. Her research during this time has focused on instructor adaptability, active learning and assessment practices, and transparency between instructors and students. She has presented one previous paper on
research ideas orwork, excluding (e.g., favoritism, not talking about historical sexual harassment), andunspecified discrimination. Not surprisingly the combination of factors led this woman to leaveher institution to find a more supportive environment. So eventually I very much secretly interviewed at other places. And I didn't resign until I had a job offer, and I talked to my therapist about my plan of action on how to resign gracefully, just because my department had retaliated against other people who had resigned by freezing their grant accounts, refusing to transfer their grants to new institutions, and things of that nature so…. people who know me personally and are close to me I will speak to you. But on the most part, [my
were in place andhow best to plan for her leave. This professor noted that she received very little support andperceived that pregnancy was viewed by her administration as an individual problem that apregnant person had to “solve”, and the institution acted as if had no responsibility to ensureinformation and support were available. You have to… find out what resources are available... those policies exist in some book somewhere, but nobody in the department knows them... it's your problem because you are pregnant, you have to find [the policy] ... it's not the institution’s role to support, it’s your role to seek and find it. Professor 8, Donnybrook.While women discussed the negative stereotypes associated with family
model[25] to critically examine our experiences during the program's creation,administration, and post-implementation phases within broader social, cultural, and institutionalcontexts. This model involves three baseline questions for extracting learning from criticalincidents:The “What?” describes the incident, defining the facts and feelings, and uncovering recurringthemes, values, and assumptions connected to larger societal constructs.The “So What?” examines the implications of the incident, placing personal experiences withinbroader cultural, historical, and structural frameworks to understand their significance.The “Now What?” focuses on action plans and suggestions for engaging with the learnings.For brevity, we group events by recurring
included in the full text review. While thisnumber is larger than expected, we plan to develop a set of inclusion and exclusion criteria specificto the full-text analysis. Along with lessening the number of records, the inclusion and exclusioncriteria will provide us with the most adequate literature for addressing our research question.During the full-text analysis phase we will identify additional themes in the literature that discussthe integration of JEDI in the curriculum. While the review of abstracts focused of the strategiesof implementing JEDI concepts in engineering curriculum, the ongoing work will analyze thesestrategies alongside their publication dates. This is done to completely satisfy the research questionand understand how the
, and representatives from universities, research centers, civilsociety, and the private sector met to formulate a declaration and action plan to build consensus aroundpolicies, projects, and other solutions focused on governance, regulatory, and institutional frameworks forthe safe, trustworthy, and ethical development of AI in the Americas.Using the results of the commissioned foresight study, LACCEI identified its initial area of focus assemiconductor and chip materials, design, and manufacturing, considering it strategic for security andeconomy in the Americas. In 2022, the United States enacted the CHIPS and Science Act [22], with $280billion in funding to support domestic research, manufacturing, and workforce development in this
beams, and includedsome small side holes for the bench user’s view.These two example talks were conducted in the classrooms of two teachers from the DesignTalks community of practice. In this study, we investigated the perceptions of these teachers andfour others, asking, How do elementary teachers perceive the benefits of intentionally facilitatedwhole-class conversations during engineering design units?MethodsThis qualitative study is part of a larger project in which university researchers partnered with K-6 teachers to develop Design Talks. We started in 2020 with two core teacher partners, meetingbi-weekly to discuss readings, plan engineering design units, and brainstorm structures forleading whole-class conversations within these units
Engineering Education, 2025Trends in Modular Construction Research: A Bibliometric Examination of Developed and Developing RegionsAbstractModular construction is a process in which various building types, standardized structuralcomponents and pre-designed floor plans are constructed offsite under controlled plantconditions before being transported and assembled on-site. This method of construction hasgained significant recognition in recent years due to its numerous benefits, including increasedefficiency, improved safety, greater flexibility in design, reduced construction time, enhancedquality control, reduced waste and improved sustainability. Despite its well-documented benefits,its adoption varies significantly across developed
marketable skills; and (4) experience network Career Readiness and secure job opportunities upon graduation. To inspire students to be involved in undergraduate research, STEM faculty will be invited to engage students in active participation in their research areas as part of the Undergraduate project's plan for student professional development. A well-established model that Research includes student research seminars/workshops, funding support for student research, faculty mentors, and opportunities for them to present at KU spring semester research symposium will be adapted for the project Research indicates that revising the
offering moresmall-group interactions, “low risk” activities, and online options. Libraries may need to adjusthow they plan orientations to create a positive and welcoming experience for cautious students.We learned that students primarily use the library as a solo study space, but also see it as a safespace to gather for group work and networking. Given all these considerations, our survey did tell us more about the lived experiences ofwomen identified students within our consortia. We learned that women identified students are atrisk of gender-based discrimination, but impacts aren’t reported until the third and fourth years ofa program. Most students work, and this influences their participation in extracurriculars. Welearned that
provided more accurate and detailed explanations than ChatGPT in some cases.This has prompted us to consider integrating these tools into future iterations of the study.Moving forward, we plan to develop more structured and clearly defined activities for students,with the aim of repeating the study in the following year. By then, we anticipate that universitieswill have clearer instructions and policies regarding the use of AI in classroom settings, whichwill help us refine the design and execution of the study.References[1] R. Subramanian and S. M. Vidalis, “Artificial Intelligence tools: Boon to Engineering Education or a threat?,” in 2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they
Venturing,30(2), 273-291.Ajzen, I. (1985). From intentions to actions: A theory of planned behavior (pp. 11-39). SpringerBerlin Heidelberg.Ajzen, I., & Fishbein, M. (2000). Attitudes and the attitude-behavior relation: Reasoned andautomatic processes. European review of social psychology, 11(1), 1-33.Alfrey, L., & Twine, F. W. (2017). Gender-fluid geek girls: Negotiating inequality regimes in thetech industry. Gender & Society, 31(1), 28-50.Allen, T. D., Herst, D. E., Bruck, C. S., & Sutton, M. (2000). Consequences associated withwork-to-family conflict: a review and agenda for future research. Journal of occupational healthpsychology, 5(2), 278.Ammeer, M. A., Haddoud, M. Y., & Onjewu, A. K. E. (2021). A personal values view
throughout the process. Experts inqualitative research, and phenomenography specifically, were consulted when planning theexperiment and when designing the interview protocol. During the analysis phase, additionalresearchers were involved as described further below.All audio recordings of the interviews were transcribed and confirmed by another researcher.Then, the first author read each transcript as a whole over multiple iterations. Direct quotesrelevant to the RQ were identified, highlighted, and tentative themes were interpreted andextracted over each round. Next, an independent researcher reviewed a transcript rich in themediversity to confirm existent labels and to suggest additional ones that may be relevant.We employed the pool of meanings
Paper ID #30371 Carlos Santos is a first year graduate student at the Wake Forest University Department of Psychology. His research includes longitudinal measurement validity and developing personalized user-interface data tools.Dr. Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University Dr. Michael Gross is a Founding Faculty and Associate Professor of Engineering at Wake Forest Uni- versity and is part of the team that is planning, developing, and delivering the brand new Engineering program. The Engineering department is viewed as an opportunity to break down silos across campus and creatively think about reimagining the undergraduate engineering educational experience, integra- tion and collaboration across departments and
feasibility of their design ideas [73]. Others present interpreted vignettes ofclassroom activity and detail methods such as interaction analysis [74] or ethnography [75]. Forinstance, in such research conducted in an elementary school, we see how students are able toidentify and frame engineering problems in their own school that affect the students, and alsothat even young students can make predictions and plan testing of their prototypes when they aredesigning with contexts they understand in mind [76]. And in research conducted using a gamein which girls role-played as mechanical engineers, the girls developed engineering skills andknowledge, and these were particularly supported by having a client and reflecting on progress ina notebook [10
College.On the faculty side during this same period, additional damaging biases were revealed wheninstructors would mention in passing that they had a certain number of GS students enrolled intheir courses. When questioned further, these instructors would explain that they assumedstudents of certain ethnicities were part of the GS program, simply based on their physicalappearance instead of any actual knowledge of their affiliation with the program.The Dean of the College, in his strategic plan, said he intended to grow the program in an effortto increase the representation of diverse students. When an effort to gain more beds in the sharedresidence hall failed, the program leadership decided to move the program to a differentresidence hall. The
will enjoy the challenge of working with difficult technical issues in the context of advanced technology. The results of our study, particularly the relatively small proportion of time devoted to solitary technical work, have helped to explain some of the frustrations I have so frequently encountered among engineers. Many felt frustrated because they did not think that their jobs provided them with enough technical challenges. Others felt frustrated because they thought that a different career choice might have led to a job that would enable them to make more use of the advanced technical subjects they had studied in their university courses. Many of them were actually planning to leave their
disengage in certain circumstances. Although it identifies eight dimensions of moral disengagement (moral justification, euphemistic labeling, advantageous comparison, displacement of responsibility, diffusion of responsibility, distortion of consequences, attribution of blame, and dehumanization), the scale is most correctly used as a measure of the single higher order concept of moral disengagement. • Experiences (17 items): Students were asked about their participation within the last two years and their plans to participate in the future in seventeen types of experiences: 1. Volunteer regularly (1+ time per month for 6 months longer) 2. Mission or volunteering trip (any location) 3. Work or internship in a non-profit
, and responding to students’ ideas in ways that help students build on their priorknowledge (Richards & Robertson, 2016; Sherin, Jacobs, & Philipp, 2011). As Ball & Cohen(2013, p. 16) put it, “Examining student thinking is a core activity of [teachers’] practice.” Inorder to help teachers develop their responsiveness, teacher educators and teacher professionallearning communities typically rely on artifacts of classroom practice (i.e. examples of studentwork, video or audio recordings of classroom events, or field notes on classroom events) toanalyze pedagogical moves/approaches, to investigate the possible consequences of theirpedagogical approach for students’ learning, and to consider intentions and plans for futurepedagogical