new research emerges [7 - 11].Deliverable #5: Professional Learning Finally, stEm PEER Academy’s fifth deliverable is a toolbox of resources that guides Fellows’ professional development such as developing Broader Impact identities, Broadening Participation efforts, proposal development, and writing research papers. For example, stEm PEER Academy prepared an NSF-aligned proposal guideline for Fellows to use for requesting implementation funding from Engineering PLUS to launch their own Implementation Projects. The purpose of this NSF-aligned proposal exercise was to provide Fellows with a more accessible and less intimidating proposal format for developing their Implementation Project, especially if they were navigating
Paper ID #39484Lab Safety Awareness in Incident and Near-miss Reporting by StudentsParticipating in Engineering Societies: A Case StudyAudrey Erin ConcepcionRyan HekkerDr. Ean H. Ng, Oregon State University Ean H. Ng is an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering at Oregon State University. She received her Ph.D. in Systems and Engineering Management from Texas Tech University. Her research interests include engineering economic analysis, high reliability organization, safety engineering, peer effects in workplace safety, and performance measurement.Chukwudiebube AtagbuziaThomas L Doyle, Oregon State UniversityJenette K
heterogeneous microelectronics for high-density systems, nanoman- ufacturing for extreme machines, in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) at the point of need, and biomanufacturing for lab-made food proteins and food equity. Malshe has trained more than 1400 graduate and undergraduate students and mentored numerous younger engineers in academia and industries. He has published over 225 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He has received over 27 patents and his patent/product conversion rate is more than 70% resulting in more than 20 award-winning engi- neered products applied by leading corporations in energy, defense and aerospace, transportation, EV, die casting, high-performance racing, and other key industrial
Rhetorical analysis purposeful writing comparing a popular comparing an engineering source with a document with a more scholarly source literary or personal form Revision and writing process Drafting; peer critique Every paper requires multiple Portfolio drafts; structured “peer review” style feedback from classmates. Argument & analysis Responsible advocacy Students create documents in
takes place to build student’s self-appraisal skills.Many video examples are used in class to show presenting styles, use of different structures,opening and closing a talk, gesturing, tone and adapting information to different audiences.Students analyze the speeches of Hans Rosling, Max Tegmark, Barack Obama and other globallyknown speakers and scientists, as well as presentations from their peers. Focused observation ofspeakers helps students define their own presentation style and also supports in-class exercisesthat break down the many elements of a presentation. Targeting single elements such astransitions or fielding questions allows students to build capacity through experimentation. Aswith the writing course, Ph.D. students greatly
analyzing the results. This form of peer interaction encouragesthe students to present a persuasive argument and engage in a technical discussion. An audienceof peers is less authoritative and less intimidating than the course instructor, and may serve as alearning resource for students (Hilgers et al., 1999).In addition to the benefits presented above, by learning and practicing other modes of technicalcommunication, engineering students develop a foundational skill that is key to their futuresuccess (Prausnitz and Bradley, 2000; Kmiec, 2004). Writing emails, preparing budgets andjustifying them, and taking meeting minutes are examples of routine tasks for engineers(Tranquillo and Cavanagh, 2007; Lepek and Stock, 2011). Nonetheless, engineering
Paper ID #38448Overlooked, Underlying: Understanding tacit criteria of proposalreviewing during a mock panel reviewMs. Randi Sims, Clemson UniversityKelsey Watts, Clemson University Kelsey Watts is a recent graduate from Clemson University. She is part of the Engineering Education Research Peer Review Training (EER PERT) team and has also developed Systems Biology outreach modules for high school students.Ms. Evan Ko, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Evan is recent undergraduate graduate in Bioengineering with a minor in Material Science and Engineer- ing at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.Prof
) Grant #DUE 1525574.References[1] P. Anderson et al., "How writing contributes to learning: new findings from a national study and their local application," Peer Review, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 4-9, 2017.[2] U. National Academy of Engineering, The engineer of 2020: Visions of engineering in the new century. National Academies Press Washington, DC, 2004.[3] M. Palmquist, "A Middle Way for WAC: Writing to Engage," WAC Journal, vol. 31, 2020.[4] T. Cary, K. J. Brent, B. Josh, B. Natascha Trellinger, and R. E. Rebecca, "Writing to Learn Engineering: Identifying Effective Techniques for the Integration of Written Communication into Engineering Classes and Curricula (NSF RIGEE project)," New Orleans, Louisiana
to write effectivecomments (Figure 1). Effective comments are based on five major elements: balanced,respectful, implementable, constructive, and specific. The students' teams will be shownexamples of good and bad written comments during recitation. During Week 3 — 5, the raterpractice was implemented to allow students to be familiar with the CATME interface. DuringWeek 6 — 7, the students on Milestone I were involving an initial design of the prototype. Peerevaluation I allowed the instructor to have an insight into the team dynamics at the normingstage. During Week 8 — 10, the students were working on Milestone II involving an improveddesign of the prototype. Peer evaluation II allowed the instructor to keep track of the teamdynamics at
interests and trajectories.The communicative principle draws on the idea that all research happens in conversation withthe larger research community. Dissemination of one’s work is an integral part of being partof a research community. As such, throughout the entire field schools, writing anddiscussions occur with the goal of disseminating work to the broader community. Generativewriting is a mechanism that is incorporated throughout the field school, underlining the ideathat writing at all stages of the research process is part of research.The playful principle draws from the fluid nature of research, where research will evolve andchange as we engage in it and make that process enjoyable. In PEER, this principle isincorporated in the design and
provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment,establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives." Therefore, engineering schools must preparestudents with teamwork skills and incorporate teamwork as a significant part of their engineeringcurricula (ABET, 2021).Team participation is typically evaluated through peer evaluations or through instructorobservation of individual team members. Several tools have been developed to assess individualperformance, such as the Team Effectiveness Questionnaire (TEQ) or the ComprehensiveAssessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME). These assessment tools are based onself-reflections or peer evaluations. However, the efficacy of these tools has been questioned.At the University of
) Carnegie Mellon’s Global Communication Center, which has been moved to be partof their larger Student Academic Success Center [10].Other engineering programs might partner with English, technical communication, writingstudies, and/or communication programs to call on writing and teaching expertise. A moreminimal partnership might involve pairing engineering students with technical communicationediting students [11]. Alternately, some approaches involve creating cross-disciplinary teams tocollaborate on client-based projects, thus offering students the opportunity to learn from peers ina range of disciplines while working for a real client to solve a specific, real-world problem [7].These partnerships can involve an instructor based in a technical
. Inrecent years, programs such as Michigan’s NextProf workshop and CU Boulder’s ACTIVEFaculty Development and Leadership Intensive, have emerged that bring together Ph.D. studentsand postdocs to network with peers as well as meet and learn from faculty at host institutionsregarding the job search. Any review of faculty application materials happens briefly duringthese events, which does not allow scaffolding for the participants or application materialrevision opportunities. Other programs focus their preparation on certain types of institutions(e.g., Stanford’s Preparing Future Professors and predominantly undergraduate institutions),disciplines (e.g., Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering and the University of Chicago’s FutureFaculty Conference
“surroundings” in an engineeringclassroom. We posed an open-ended reflection question to engineering undergraduates at a largeUS university about their classroom surroundings and its impact on their learning andcomprehension. The reflection prompt defined surroundings as the “conditions and objects thatsurround you.” This reflection question was part of an NSF-funded study on the use of weeklyreflection in a flipped fluid mechanics course to drive metacognitive development and lifelonglearning skills. During class, students were encouraged to collaborate with their peers duringproblem solving to achieve collective understanding and interact with the instructor. Based on aninductive, emergent content analysis of the reflection data with two analysts, we
university about their classroom surroundings and its impact on their learning andcomprehension. The reflection prompt defined surroundings as the “conditions and objects thatsurround you.” This reflection question was part of an NSF-funded study on the use of weeklyreflection in a flipped fluid mechanics course to drive metacognitive development and lifelonglearning skills. During class, students were encouraged to collaborate with their peers duringproblem solving to achieve collective understanding and interact with the instructor. Based on aninductive, emergent content analysis of the reflection data with two analysts, we obtained anunexpected result. Specifically, the most-frequently mentioned positive classroom “surroundings”was “peers” (46
all students (372/414) Sophomore/ Winter Preventative; Mandatory for 96% (23/24) junior mass Peer 2023 midterm, final review all students 79% (19/24) transferStudents generally responded positively to the remedial assignment. Most scanned (new) hand-written solutions and recorded audio while screen sharing a pdf on Zoom. A few studentsanimated equations onto PowerPoint, recorded live equation-writing with tablets or filmedthemselves writing on paper. Very few students appeared on camera. Generally, problems werecompleted and explained
support general education outcomes and support ABETguidelines in the first year. As the unit progressed it became a way to support those students whowere considered not college ready in English and give a connection to the field for students whowould not have engineering coursework for at least one year. In its current form, this curricularunit provides support for different forms of writing, information literacy (IL), research, andconnects students to their chosen field, the campus and individual instructors throughout thecollege of engineering.This curricular unit consists of five sessions with the embedded engineering librarian and threestand-alone class sessions with the instructor to provide students an opportunity to completevarious forms
research habits, studentsare probably more inclined to adopt both vertical and lateral search techniques.Writing-Based Exercise #2: “Professional” fact checking for your peersThis activity requires that students act as “professional fact checkers” for their peers. Typically,this activity is useful during a drafting process for a paper, after Exercise #1 has been completedand students have begun writing their own papers. Writing-Based Exercise #2: Fact-checking activity—Evaluate your partner’s source use! Directions: For this exercise, you’ll choose at least one of your partner’s main sources. Afterward, you’ll act as a “professional fact checker,” evaluating both the credibility of your partner’s sources and their use of those sources. Remember
typically seen until the senior-level course.Student OutcomesWhile the initial expectation was that students in the first-year course would perform to aequitable but lesser degree than their counterparts, our expectations were subverted when seeingthe outcomes and productions of students at both levels. Overall, students at the lower levelshowed competency in writing and presenting equal to or surpassing their senior-level peers inthe first semester. Examples are given and explained regarding the differences in both writingand presenting outcomes.WritingOne of the areas of frequent struggle and focus in the senior-level capstone sections is the writingand explaining of equations and mathematical calculations undertaken in the process ofengineering
sought to understand the student’s level ofconfidence in their ability to write programs and the importance they placed on programming intheir future career.Following the semester-long introductory programming classes, we conducted a week-longworkshop for a small group of students who were part of the ANON project. We report on the twoworkshops that we conducted in January 2022 and January 2023. The data contains reflectionsnoted down by the instructor and near-peer mentors during the workshop. We also report on thedata from the pre-workshop and a post-workshop survey.FindingsFirst, we report on the confidence and interest of students enrolled in introductory programmingcourses. We draw upon their response to list topics in introductory computer
combination of lecture and student-led project work designed tointroduce/guide students through the engineering design process. The instructional team metseveral times to discuss desired improvements to curriculum and student communicationoutcomes. Based on those initial meetings, the technical communications faculty developedactivities and delivered lectures over a range of topics including: • Writing for audience and purpose • Common professional genres (emails, memos, reports) • Technical communications style • Best practices for developing and delivering presentations • Best practices for poster presentations • Best practices for document design • Providing peer feedback • Data visualization and effective graphics
longer for a weaker student to finalize the project. As a result, theproject sometimes does not improve the students' weak abilities, knowledge, and teamworkcapabilities.This research investigates the educator's methods at the undergraduate level for engineering andparticularly construction engineering technology courses to analyze, assess, evaluate, and resolveteamwork problems. In addition to a literature review of the experienced and reported methods,the author shares different methods practiced in several years of teaching in various institutionsand countries.One of the methods with the better outcome is the student involvement in the assessment of theirteammates. How to arrange peer assessment is one of the topics. The related forms, their
and assessment tool [13]. However, they do not make or teach anexplicit connection between portfolio documentation and project communication for future jobapplications or other career opportunities.SettingThis first-year engineering course is taught in a large, private university in the US Northeastregion. The course is one semester long, with lecture, lab, recitation, and a semester-long designproject. Roughly 350 students take the course in the Fall semester, and 300 enroll in Springsemester. Lectures are led by the first-year faculty director and invited faculty, administrators, orindustry guests and introduce students to relevant topics in engineering education. In recitation,engineering and writing faculty lead active sessions on
). Responses to prompts on the applicationwere used by the leadership team during online interviews.Scholars entered the program at the beginning of their second term at HU. They enrolled in theSTEM Writing and Metacognition Seminar course meeting weekly. Scholars were assigned tomentoring “squads” composed of peer mentors (successful STEM students) and a faculty mentor,meeting biweekly throughout each semester. They participated in All Program events three timeseach year (beginning of Fall semester, beginning and end of Spring semester), as well asacademic and career-centered workshops hosted by the iAM Program in partnership with therelevant unit (e.g., Center for Academic Excellence, Center for Career Design andDevelopment). Scholars networked with
' experiences within a cohort regarding theirutilization of social capital, we leveraged these definitions to characterize students' networks andhow they used social capital. Specifically, this paper focuses on the support provided to studentsinside and outside of structured institutional support mechanisms (i.e., the cohort program), suchas the connections provided by relationships to faculty or professional contacts and the emotionalsupport of peers and advisors.MethodsThis paper uses qualitative data from an ongoing NSF-funded mixed methods study (NSFgrant #EHR-1833738) which looks at a cohort of academically talented engineering studentswith demonstrated financial need. This larger study used semi-structured focus group interviewsto learn more
paintings found in Indonesia—date back at least 43,900 years (George, 2019).Humans came into being with a set of basic survival needs, in which storytelling played a crucialrole. Storytelling transcends boundaries and disciplines, with fictional and non-fictional storiesbeing depicted and disseminated through art, technology, writing, and speaking. Because storiesplay a critical role in offering opportunities for meaning and connection in our lives, manyscholars and researchers have attempted to harness its benefits through storytelling interventionsand approaches (Pennebaker & Beall, 1986; Sharif et al., 2018; Suhr et al., 2017). Theseapproaches take on an array of forms, ranging from written journal entries to the oral sharing ofstories with
working with their mentees. All mentees increased their confidence forparticipating in mock review panels and writing grants, with most saying that their confidenceimproved greatly. Both mentees and mentors also felt that there was a significant connectionbetween their peer reviewing skills and their ability to conduct engineering education research.The majority of program participants felt that the workload was reasonable and that the activitieswere well-paced within the program.Although both mentees and mentors indicated positive feelings for the program overall, manyalso felt that program logistics could be improved. The largest issue between both mentors andmentees was the clarity of instructions given by the project team. Many felt that
. The presentation was assessed based on completeness, organization, visuals, writing mechanics, and presentation length. • Project 2: Structural and cultural barriers In support of course learning outcome #2, students completed an annotated bibliography and infographic related to one of the structural or cultural barriers women in engineering fields face. Students were required to review at least three primary sources and summarize information in an infographic. They shared their work with classmates in a gallery walk3. Annotated reviews were assessed primarily by source type and quality (i.e., peer reviewed), summary points, reflection response, and format. The infographics were
, fasteners, etc.Two new exercises and associated assessments were introduced in a Mechanical Designcurriculum during the fall 2021 semester. The first assignment asked the students to design aconveyor system shaft, including drawing the shear and moment diagrams, and selection ofmaterials. The students were asked to submit their work as an excel “simulator” and toinvestigate the effect of the shaft speed on the overall calculations. The second assignment askedthe students to independently research on a new tribology-related topic and to make apresentation to the class based on their assigned topic. The topic was chosen by the instructorfrom the Handbook of Tribology. In all instances, the students were asked to evaluate and gradeall their peers
discussed using a very high level of active learning by thestudents. Thus students are actively involved in the learning process, giving them the ability tomaster the topic in a way that they can understand and apply it [2]. Students apply this newknowledge by presenting it to their peers. Once the students feel they understand the topic theymake evidence of their knowledge in whatever format best suits them, such as a short video ofthem explaining the topic with graphics or even making a detailed comic from scratch explainingthe topic. This proof of understanding is then uploaded to a token in an online proprietarylearning management system. As stated by professors who started an IBL program at NDSU,“To evaluate that token, peers provide blind