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english professor. Students gained valuable transferable skills while workingon this project including creative thinking, audience awareness, teamwork, technical writing,visual design, and communication. The authors of this paper, who include the students thatworked on the project, aim to promote and encourage the idea of undergraduate students activelyengaging and creating STEM programs and initiatives for K-12.IntroductionThe idea of STEM education has been around since the early 1900’s. Originally called, SMET(science, mathematics, engineering, and technology), educators focused on instructing studentsin skills that would benefit their future societies[1]. The idea of enriching these fields by creatingstudents well versed in them quickly
process was adjusted to put a stronger emphasis on motivation issues and technicalbackground of candidates. The biggest limitation of the analysis conducted is the small number of observations. Currently, in splitting afew hundred students according to certain aspects, we get buckets of only a few dozen people. At this rate, a fewoutliers in a bucket might create a visible anomaly. We hope to get a statistically significant amount of data bymonitoring students performance and admission metrics over the course of 2-3 years.References[1] T. Stanko, Innopolis University – a new IT resource for Russia, Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), Kazan, Russia September 25 – 27, 2013[2] Irina S
city. They meet early, before the city develops its full daily rhythm, andthen walk and explore the entirety of the city from morning until late into the evening. Thefaculty meet with the students at various points during the day and at night’s end for debriefing.While exhausting, this experience provides an opportunity for students to learn the city quicklyand for faculty to begin assessing students’ skills and coming needs in researching the Florencesite. Figure 1: Florence, Baptistery of S. Giovanni: The program begins with an all-day site exploration.After the “deep dive” city exploration and an additional four days of directed site investigationand orientation, each group is assigned one
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on themusical bridges and seemed to be more engaged in the project than students in previous years.And females, in particular, seemed to prefer the musical bridges over a more traditional bridgeproject. The author plans to continue to use some variation on the musical bridge project forfuture solid mechanics courses. Questions, however, remain: did students find the musical aspectof the project more engaging or would another type of interdisciplinary project be just asengaging? Did the musical bridge project result is improved learning? Were students morecreative? Did their critical thinking skills improve? Future projects will attempt to explore thesequestions and more.ReferencesBarnard, S., Hassan, T., Bagilhole, B., Dainty. A. (2012
academic population, underrepresented and misunderstood.Early discussion at the board level in the mid 2000’s indicated a willingness for a paradigm shift.However, the representation of academics on the board and other leadership roles has beenlacking. This can be attributed to the lower numbers of this group relative to the whole, as wellas the requirements of tenure that do not support the time and dedication to such an endeavor. Asmall but influential group of members, including a former board member, and a few involved atvarious levels of the society have been working toward increasing opportunities for women inacademia (WIA). Some of the initiatives have been the societal support of the WIA committee,the addition of professional development
. It has also improved the assessmentculture in the department, a key factor for the continuous improvement of the programs offeredby the department.References:1. Snyder, T. D., & Dillow, S. A., 2013, Digest of Education Statistics 2012 (NCES 2014-015), National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington D.C.2. Obama, B., 2009, President Obama’s Address to Congress, retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/us/politics/24obama-text.html?_r=2 on Feb 20 2010, accessed on Jan 24, 2017.3. U.S. Department of Education, 2006, A test of leadership: Charting the future of American higher education (Report of the commission appointed by Secretary of Education Margaret
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a variety of fields, and the requirements to obtain the desiredposition(s) within these fields also have significant range. Many of the requirements involvelicensing and certifications, whereas many of the higher-up administrative positions requirebachelor and master degrees. The incentive behind this research project was to investigate whyso many construction degree programs at the college and university levels are either closing, orat a minimum not meeting the demand of industry by providing sufficient graduates for thepositions available, and why most high schools in the United States are no longer offeringconstruction type courses. A survey completed by a state board of education in a western Statefound that even drafting and CAD high
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, Clarence Central School District Abigail Gordon obtained her B.S. and M.S.ed. from Daemen College in Amherst, NY. She is currently a special education teacher in the Clarence Central School District. Abigail works as a special education consultant teacher for second and fifth grade. Many of Abigail’s daily roles include front loading her students on lessons that they will later see in their mainstream classrooms. She has become an expert in this field and has been involved in efforts to modify the elementary age front loading technique to other age groups of learners.Dr. Brian Scott Rice, Rochester Institute of Technology Dr. Brian S. Rice is an assistant professor in the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering
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intoundergraduate research is found in the literature [6] and some of our best practices for involvingstudents who are D/HH in research can be found in the articles [7] and [8].AcknowledgementThe authors would like to thank Dr. Scott R. Smith for data related the attainment of graduatedegrees by D/HH individuals.References1. Pagano, T. "Making Education and Careers in Chemistry Accessible and Successful for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students”. In Diversity in the Scientific Community. (Nelson and Cheng- Editors) American Chemical Society: Washington, DC., 2017, pp. 125-132.2. Jones, M.T.; Barlow, A.E.; Villarejo, M. Importance of undergraduate research for minoritypersistence and achievement in biology. J. High. Educ. 2010, 81, 82–115.3. Hurtado, S
accreditation efforts. Programs were tasked to identify 1-2 dedicatedaccreditation or assessment coordinators who would then interface with program faculty,coordinate efforts at the program level and report back from the school level meetings. Facultywere chosen based on recommendation from the Chairs and/or self-selection following a call.The faculty ranged in rank from Assistant Professor to Professor. The school-level accreditationcommittee consisted of the program faculty coordinator(s) plus the department chairs, theschool-wide assessment coordinator and the Associate Dean for undergraduate studies. Twointernal evaluators also brought additional expertise from their tenure as ABET programevaluators. The following sections detail specific planning
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, ofstakeholder needs, of the social and environmental context, and of temporal dimensions [4] - [6],[15] - [17]. Our definition of systems thinking is represented in Figure 1, where the “component”of a problem that an individual may be working on is in the center. The expanding circlesrepresent the contexts that can and should be considered in making decisions about thesolution(s) and their appropriateness. Many times, this component is part of a larger technicalsystem, thus other pieces or components within the system both must be considered and can havean impact on the success of the solution. This technical system exists within another existingstructure, such as infrastructure of the environment or regulations in a particular field of
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