participants. Our poster will present anoverview of our: 1) conceptual model informing our data collection; 2) workshop developmentand implementation; and 3) instrument revision and piloting.Project OverviewThis project is a multi-case study with three phases in the research plan and two phases in theeducation plan. The project is guided by a conceptual model developed during Years 1 and 2 ofthe project. Phase 1 of the research plan is a single case study, which involves data collection atthe PI’s home institution, which is the current stage of the project. Part 1 of the education planrelated to developing and implementing Situational Judgment Inventories is currently underwayas well.Before we began collecting data, we reflected on the research
librarians. During the project, fellowscompleted 24 hours of design thinking instruction, practiced teaching at digital fabricationsummer camps for elementary and middle school youth, and created a lesson plan that integrateddesign thinking into their subject area. This paper investigates the extent to which teacherconfidence & ability in integration of design thinking principles into classroom instruction wereimproved by participation in the PL fellowship.Project Rationale. The notion of “making” has shown promise as an active, project-basedlearning intervention[2]. Integrating digital fabrication into classroom instruction has beenshown to improve student attitudes toward the STEM disciplines and increase career interest [3]-[5]. However
tool, a set ofsurvey questions were given to those students whose schedules have been made using theadvising tool. The collected survey data has been analyzed statistically to determine the tool'sefficacy from students’ perspectives. The analyzed data indicate that the students were overallsatisfied and had positive attitudes towards different aspects of the tool.MotivationIn any major, preparing an effective and error-free course plan for undergraduate students eachsemester is crucial for their timely graduation. However, various constraints may arisethroughout the student’s four-year program, which can cause uncertainties in their graduationtiming. Students also often want a clear picture of their projected graduation date, including
questions during projects 4 . Thestudents enjoy project-based learning classes, and it increases motivation to complete theassignment among students 5 . Though there are some set backs, as with any type of teachingapproach, researchers have addressed the various challenges in applying project-based learningwhen it comes to complex projects that requires multi-team collaboration and interactions 6 . Wetook into account these various issue in the process of developing our project.Tools DevelopmentIn general, implementing a systems engineering project requires using project management toolsto allow teams to plan, execute and monitor the project through its life-cycle. People haveadopted different methods to manage projects, including waterfall and
one year before COVID and the physics CCT was active forroughly six months prior to COVID. Timing relative to COVID is mentioned because themovement to online learning impacted the trajectories and schedules for teaching change efforts.Both of these CCTs started their work by designing a change plan that outlined the issues theywanted to target and then started to work towards those goals by making changes in the targetedintroductory courses. The computer science department joined the project more recently, and itsCCT is still working to design its plan for change.Teaching change efforts spearheaded by the math and physics CCTs primarily focused on thestructure of recitations. Math focused on redesigning calculus recitations to an active
-track day are full of student focused activities, topics and needs madeavailable to all students, both locally and abroad. In fact, each session of the student-track dayinvolved participatory student input throughout the planning process. Some of the topicsdiscussed in the 2022 student-track conference proceedings were a sense of belonging; studentsmental health; full disclosure: speaking your truth student panel; inclusive student leadership andresilience. The student day provided students a platform to discuss equity and inclusion issuesthat impact them every day and develop and/or increase their skills related to equity andinclusion contexts. The day also helped them increase their awareness, recognize the benefits ofa diverse organization
, period of retirement, and averageage at death (career and retirement planning).Mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System show large differences in the“expectation of life at age x.” The tabulated value at age 22 for a male American Indian orAlaska Native is 65.3 years and for a female Asian it is 21.1 years longer at 86.4 years.Differences like these are substantial, of major social importance, and highly relevant forpersonal financial planning by students—now and as retirement nears.We assert that engineering economy courses should include the use of relevant demographicbased information for personal financial decision making. Students will begin making financialdecisions regarding insurance, investing, and retirement planning
, and mental models were introduced. Examples were sharedby faculty who had already begun to incorporate sustainability concepts into their courses.During the workshop, the participants planned concrete changes to their own courses anddiscussed changing the curriculum across the 4 years of the undergraduate experience. BackgroundTraditionally, sustainability has not been part of the standard engineering curriculum. Bysustainability we mean meeting human needs (current and future) within planetary boundaries,covering social (including diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI), environmental, and economicaspects. As an additional challenge, various disciplines across the campus are siloed, so thatstudents in business, the arts, engineering
environment results in universitiestending to teach theoretical concepts and rarely providing a hands on production experience. Inthis paper we describe a unique hands on production learning experience provided to sophomoreindustrial engineering students at Mercer University. These students design and develop theprocess and participate as production workers and industrial engineers for producing 3Dyearbooks for the Georgia Academy for the Blind. These student experience first-handproduction concepts such as process planning, manpower allocation, assembly lines, cycle time,fixtures, bottlenecks, rework, quality, etc… This experience is the first time some of thesestudents have been exposed to and/or participated in production of an actual
acohort for structured professional development workshops that are relevant to both early andlate-career students. Workshop topics were selected from student focus groups and representativetopics include time management, LinkedIn, resumes, negotiation, career fairs, interviewing, andalumna panels. Each mentor/mentee pair also meets one-on-one three times a semester forunstructured mentoring. LEAP hosts social events where both current and past LEAP studentsare invited to encourage networking and community building across cohorts. We believe thatmentoring is one approach to cost-effective professional development; therefore, we plan toexpand our program to all first-year students in the Honors Engineering Program.
new course entitled “Solar PV Planning and Installation”, (ii) summer workshopsfor K-12 students through Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) at NJIT, (iii) facultydevelopment workshops for the instructors of other 2- and 4-year institutions, (iv) undergraduateresearch and senior design projects, and (v) development of a dedicated public website to includeall the lecture notes, laboratory experiments, video recordings, publications, guidelines todevelop similar courses, and other instructional materials. This paper summarizes and presentsthe comments and feedback from external advisory committee (EAC), external evaluator, facultydevelopment workshop participants, K-12 workshop participants, and the students enrolled in thenew course. It
-efficacy as educators, empowering them to contribute moreeffectively to learning environments. We have offered the course in the Spring quarters of 2021,2022, and 2023. In each iteration, we sought to actively demonstrate evidence-based inclusivepedagogical techniques through our course design and instruction. In the future, we plan to 1)evaluate the effectiveness of our course design on participant accomplishment of learning goals,and 2) examine the impact of course participants as TAs on the broader bioengineeringcommunity.Course Design: Enabling effective learning of pedagogical skillsCourse Learning Goals: We designed a course to address a critical need in the training ofgraduate TAs by allowing them to build pedagogical skills before their
and then appliedthese skills directly to their current research projects (thesis). Applying PM skills to researchbenefits both the student and their research team by improving time management, taskcompletion, and communication. Ultimately, we anticipate that PM skills will increase students’likelihood of completing their degrees and equip students with transferable knowledge for theirfuture work.To assess the effectiveness of the course in meeting our goals, we developed a comprehensiveevaluation plan that included pre- and post-class surveys. These pre- and post-surveys askedstudents to rate their familiarity with and use of PM skills. In this paper, we provide a detaileddescription of the course and highlight the results of the pre-and post
fordeveloping and working to their own project-specific schedule to meet the prescribed milestones.Starting from the business stage gate model, students developed a list of tasks necessary to reachthe high-level milestones, estimated durations for those tasks, considered predecessors andsuccessors, formed an initial plan, and assigned individual responsibilities. To facilitate thisprocess, the instructors provided templates for the project management plan document, weeklyprogress reports, and project update meetings.The Design Control Pillar focused on gathering customer requirements, developing designrequirements, and creating and verifying design solutions. After identifying customerrequirements during an initial kick-off meeting with their sponsor
asproductive study methods [3].Academic coaches provide individualized academic support to students in the College ofEngineering to improve student persistence and degree completion. FEP added academiccoaching to its services in 2018 to better equip engineering students for academic strugglesoutside of learning course content. The academic coaching team started as one coach andcontinually grew; currently, there are two full-time academic coaches that are supported by twopart-time academic coach graduate assistants. The coaches schedule one-on-one meetings withstudents to co-create a success plan that considers life experiences, academic goals, and long-term professional aspirations. The Academic Coaching team also offers in-class presentations,group
to Year 2, as well as the design and implementation of anew faculty orientation, called the Welcome Academy, specific to new engineering faculty andpractices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Finally, drawing on the principal investigator(PI) team’s reflections as well as feedback from external evaluators, we provide our insights withthe intention of sharing useful experiences to other colleges planning to form such FLCs.IntroductionOverwhelming evidence points to the need for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices inthe profession of engineering in general, and in engineering education in particular. There arestrong arguments for embracing DEI practices, from both economics (to improve the nationaltechnical workforce
with the research mentors and graduatestudents who were working on complimentary research problems. Each teacher defined aresearch problem unique to them, for a total of 11 individual research projects within the fourmain research areas of Blast Furnace Fuel Simulation, Reheat Furnace Simulation, FiniteElement Analysis of Structures, and Safety Training. Teachers completed the research andpresented results at the end of the 6-week summer session. Each teacher also developed andpresented a lesson plan related to their research which was to be implemented in their classroomduring the 2022-23 school year.Evaluation included pre & post measurement of teacher’s self-reported ability to completeresearch tasks such as defining a research problem
providing teacher professional development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Developing An Assessment Toolkit for Precollege Summer Engineering Workshops (Works-in-Progress)Abstract Many universities have engineering outreach programming that expose students toengineering that include day camps, overnight camps, and multi-week programs. As the projectsoccur over hours, days, or weeks, rich content is delivered in a very abbreviated timeframe.Often only anecdotal evidence or evaluative surveys reflect what students’ experience. Thisworks-in-progress project describes the strategic plan and first stage towards development oftools for assessing engineering learning in weekly summer
learning. Taheri et al. [6] studied the effect of incorporatingmakerspaces into first year project-based courses and found positive impacts on student learning.This paper presents a plan to utilize an existing manufacturing facility housed in the StatlerCollege of Engineering at West Virginia University for lab courses for a new B.S. program inEngineering Technology to provide relevant experiential learning activities. This program willbegin classes in Fall 2023. Four lab courses are planned to be taught in the manufacturingfacility, Lane Innovation Hub. They are an introductory manufacturing processes lab, a coursethat combines CAD software and manufacturing processes, a more advanced manufacturingprocesses lab, and an electronic circuits lab
coursework at universities around the country, and will understand the benefits ofoffering an e4usa course at their institution. Workshop participants will have time to exploreways to bring an engineering literacy course derived from the e4usa curriculum to their homeinstitution.This workshop is designed for higher education administrators and faculty who offer or plan tobegin offering first-year engineering coursework. High school engineering educators andadministrators may also find this workshop of interest as it relates to developing a network ofinstitutions offering coursework that is closely aligned with the high school e4usa curriculum.Lastly, influencers and changemakers frustrated with the status quo and who desire more diverse,equitable
analyze a design, construction, and testing. We put considerable effortbusiness problem or opportunity and consider current and into up-front planning, and the various life cycle phases arefuture states to determine an optimal solution that will provide typically not revisited when complete. For example, if productvalue and address the business need; the results from this design is completed and product construction begins, it is notpreliminary analysis will provide decision-makers with desirable to review the design phase again. At the otherrelevant information to determine whether an investment in extreme is the adaptive development approach. It
) that provide studentswith the skills necessary to complete an integrated core project (ICP). This semester long ICP isa group project that thematically ties together CEE concepts, guiding students through thesequence of a residential site development project. Part 1 of the ICP requires a comprehensiveassessment of the existing site, including topography, slopes, land use, soils, and zoningcalculations, which provide real constraints and regulations for the students to adhere to whendeveloping a conceptual site plan layout. Once provided with a final site plan design for Part 2,students apply spatial analysis tools to evaluate drainage patterns and earthwork volumes, extractprofiles from existing and proposed surfaces, calculate quantities for
development of suchcompetencies of both students and teachers for active learning. We want to use the data to seekevidence of better practice in promoting student learning in engineering core courses, especiallythe traditional lecture-based ones.Course structureThis study has been conducted in a sophomore-level Biothermodynamics class for two semesters(2022 Spring and Fall). Previously, the course was taught with lecture-based materials relying onnote-taking and individual homework traditionally. Under the new design, students will receive adetailed content structure at the beginning of the semester, shown in Appendix, Figure 1.Students will obtain a general view of the course content, types of assignments/exams, and theirdue times from this plan
leanstartup style "build-measure-learn" cycles [12, 14] but tailored for curricular innovation. Thissummer innovation workshop can itself be considered as an “incremental innovation” and seekto answer a key question: "whether and to what extent the innovation training workshop seriescan help faculty with framing/planning their curricular or pedagogical changes". We then seekto use the evidence gathered to re-examine our assumptions and to suitably modify ourworkshop. This Evidence-Based Practice seeks to provide our preliminary insight into thisquestion.Methods1. Initiation of Educational innovation teamsTCORPS recruited its first cohort of instructors in March 2021 and the second cohort in April2022 for participation in the summer 2021 and summer
. 1. Connection Plan – Future GR.A.D.S. utilized a ten-week connection plan that laid out the schedule with goals and tasks for each week. This connection plan included tasks for both the mentor and mentee regarding the goals, meetings, and surveys. For some tasks, email notifications were sent to the participants to remind them of the timeline. For other tasks, the platform also sent multiple reminders if the task went uncompleted. 2. Messaging Portal – The messaging portal allowed participants to communicate in a thread viewable in their connection. This single continuous thread is convenient for tracking. 3. Meeting Tracker – Participants were encouraged to link their calendars to their profile in the
. The course is alsoregularly updated to address current events in civil engineering that have a criticalcommunication component. For example, in spring 2023, the Norfolk Southern train derailmentin East Palestine, Ohio, and the Philadelphia Water Department’s tracking of a latex product spillin a tributary to the Delaware River were analyzed from a communication perspective [21], [22].In addition to the small-group in-class activities, the course includes reflective activities,homework assignments, and a culminating semester project with both group and individualcomponents to provide students with practice in creating a multitude of communication productsthat – together – result in a comprehensive project communication plan. The course employs
performance of existing campus • Document the Existing Policies and Procedures to buildings achieve credits • Work with Facilities Planning and Management team to collect performance data • Recognize the limitations and • Work with Facilities Planning and Management possible improvements in the team to collect performance data existing campus infrastructure • Collect and Report the Existing condition of the Selected Site and Building • Examine campus sustainability • Collect and Report the Existing condition of the efforts Selected
, Effort/Importance, Pressure/Tension, PerceivedChoice, and Value/Usefulness. It is designed based on self-determination theory [1]. Stu-dents respond on a 5 point Likert scale of “Strongly agree” to “Strongly Disagree” to thefollowing 2 questions from each subscale. “I think this class is going to be boring” and “Ithink this class is going to be enjoyable”, “I think that I am going to be pretty good at thisclass” and “This is a class that I cannot do very well in”, “I plan to put a lot of effort intothis class” and “It is important to me to do well in this class”, “I am anxious about thisclass” and “I feel very relaxed about this class”, “I feel like it is not my own choice to do thisclass” and “I feel like I am taking this class because I have
Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference Integrating SolidProfessor within an Engineering Graphics Course Priya T. Goeser Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractThe goal of this study is to evaluate the use of SolidProfessor in an Engineering Graphics courseat Georgia Southern University. SolidProfessor is an online resource with built-in video tutorialsand lessons for engineering training with an emphasis on CAD courses. Instructors can use pre-built lesson plans, customize lesson plans or create their own lesson plans. The lesson
, certification Journal 7: Professional certification 12 Professional development and Journal 8: Professional societies advancement 13 Resources for women in engineering Project 4: Career plan and technology careers, promoting diverse participation 14 Changing the culture Journal 9: Personal statement 15 Prominent women in engineering and Journal 10: Notable engineer technology 16 Insights from professionals Journal 11: Personal reflection Finals Project 5: Final course project weekStudents in this course were primarily junior- and senior-level engineering students. As thispopulation