to make adjustments as needed. Specifically, students who effectively employ metacognitivestrategies, such as reflection and self-assessment, are more likely to master the problem solvingskills that are essential to programming success [3].Writing to learn (WTL) activities promote metacognition in any discipline. Based on the ideathat writing is a visual representation of thinking [4], WTL activities are usually short, low-stakes writing assignments that are designed to promote reflection, analysis, synthesis, anddeeper understanding of course material. When integrated into a problem-solving assignment,such as a programming lab, WTL prompts allow students to think about the choices they aremaking and the reasons for those choices. When
reflect upon and assess diversity and inclusion efforts within ECE [2].To interrogate students’ perceptions of diversity and inclusion, we interviewed 13 current or pastundergraduate ECE students. With nearly 40 percent of the undergraduate ECE studentsidentifying as international students, such a significant international population posestremendous learning opportunities as well as challenges related to diversity and inclusion. Thus,formal efforts within ECE have been made to bridge cultural differences, develop interculturalcompetencies, and promote inclusion of internationally and domestically diverse ECE members.However, these efforts have met with mixed results. Our analysis of the interview data suggeststhat these efforts often were not
categorize students along the model’s active-reflectivedimension as reflective, active, or “in-between” (neutral) learners. Students were partneredthroughout the semester with a variety of partners with attention to mixing and matching theirpreferred learning styles to determine any effects of partnering.This study took place across three sections of a sophomore-level programming class in a mid-size, public university in the western United States. The sample included approximately 100primarily second-year mechanical engineering undergraduate students. The course is a requiredprogramming course using MATLAB. A weekly quiz was administered across each of thesections differently. This was done to test the relationship between strategy and
reflects the responses to each of the eleven questions with 5=strongly agree,4=agree, 3=neutral, 2=disagree, and 1=strongly disagree. Figures 1-11 chart the responses to theindividual questions but show the relationships between exam average and average timeremaining in the exam. These averages, exam and time, are of the three midterm exams. Strongly Strongly Student Perceptions of Timed Total Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Disagree Exams Responses (5) (4) (3) (2) (1) Q1. Timed exams are difficult. 250 9% 41% 35% 13
modules” (Steele,2016). Our First Year Engineering module included basic information from advisors such as theFirst Year Engineering Advising syllabus and required students to upload their plan along withanswering basic questions concerning their involvement with the university.In the spring 2017 semester, we required students to update their plan, and added a series of shortanswer questions designed to help students reflect on their college experience and promoteintrospection about their values, i.e. who they are, who they want to be and what motivates them.We have also developed a new orientation module for our newly admitted freshmen on Canvas.This will focus on presenting them with FAQs and other needed information pertaining to thecollege
(to environment) A8 Uses footprint analysis to estimate impact A9 Analyzes embedded energy of alternatives B1 Addresses stakeholder or client requests B2 Considers local circumstances and cultures B3 Incorporates public/stakeholder participation B4 Incorporates user experience Social B5 Protects human health and well-being B6 Uses inherently safe and benign materials (to humans) B7 Demonstrates ethics/ethical reasoning B8 Reflects social responsibility B9 Manufacturing complies with safety regulations
. Student teams also presented their work to thecommunity partner. In addition to the final drawings and presentation, students were graded onan individual reflection paper about the design process and given peer evaluations to grade howthe team worked together. Because drafting classes (e.g., AutoCAD, Revit, Solidworks) arecommon among many engineering disciplines, this approach is seen as a model of how CE maybe incorporated easily into many engineering programs. In addition to explaining the coursedesign, this paper presents summative reflections from the professor, a community partner, andthe Center for Community Engagement coordinator about successes and failures with respect tothese projects. These reflections are provided as learning
education research through doctoral education programs; two developedengineering education knowledge and practices through exposure as part of our doctoral andpost-doctoral program work; and one of us developed the knowledge and practices while in afaculty position. In our new faculty positions, we represent both tenure and non-tenure trackroles and have positions that are within a range of programs.To examine the impact of institutional context on our agency, we selected and implementedaspects from both collaborative autoethnography and collaborative inquiry to study theexperiences of our research team [14, 15]. Throughout the first two years of our positions, wewrote weekly, monthly, pre-semester, and post-semester reflections to capture and make
problem solving in multidisciplinary andinterdisciplinary teams. Undergraduate engineering students often are trained in disciplinaryconcepts and techniques of their specializations, but rarely given opportunities to reflect uponhow they work with collaborators. Here, we discuss a course that brings students fromengineering and non-engineering fields together to grapple with a technical and conceptualchallenge: designing and building drones for humanitarian purposes. This paper describes an“Engineering Peace” course and discusses preliminary findings from surveys, focus groups, andobservations regarding the course’s effects on students’ multidisciplinary and interdisciplinaryskills. This material allows us to analyze the emergence of professional
2018). 3) Develop an expanded curriculum for a new stand-alone honors course (to be taught in Autumn 2018).The general format of our curriculum is: lecture to introduce topic, pre-assignment includingreading and written reflection, in-class discussion, and post-class reflection. We will sharecurricular materials such as lectures, assignments, reading lists, and in-class discussion promptsat the conference. Please see the honors course schedule in Appendix A.Preliminary AssessmentOver three quarters, we have introduced parts of our curriculum in an introductorybioengineering course through the addition of two class sessions and a reflective assignment. Inaddition, we made an effort throughout the course to explicitly relate ethics and
part of their research experiences. From thislist of potential codes, codes were identified based on what was found in Phase II interviewtranscripts. These include activities such as constructing knowledge that is new to participant ornew to field, collaboration, testing ideas, and dissemination. Some codes reflect students’attitudes and beliefs, such as career goals or plans; challenges they faced when doing research;and aspects of mentoring or supervision. Other codes reflect aspects of students’ experiences,such as recognition, failure, gaining skills, or feeling a sense of gratification. These codes will beparticularly important for Phase III of this project, in which we will identify ways to transfer ourfindings to instructional practice
controls system and the use of technology to enhance engineering education. Dr. Mason is a member of the Amer- ican Society of Engineering Education and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He is a licensed professional engineer.Dr. Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the Univer- sity of Washington. She is interested in all aspects of engineering education, including how to support c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #22165engineering students in reflecting on experience, how to
and of the study abroad trips are presented along with reflections ofstudent learning.Course DescriptionSeveral factors contributed to the decision to address the need for developing globalcompetencies. Like many universities, the University of Cincinnati (UC) has made a concertedeffort to increase its global interactions and colleges and units are encouraged to contribute tothis global strategy. Many of the businesses that hire our graduates are global companies andthey are seeking employees who are comfortable working in this global context. Finally,students are requesting these opportunities at a greater rate than they had in the past.The College sought to provide content and experiences that met the global engineering skill setdefined by
practices soccer and tennis.Dr. Molly J. Scanlon, Nova Southeastern University Molly J. Scanlon, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Writing and Communication in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) at Nova Southeastern University. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in first year experience, composition, writing studies, and visual rhetoric. Research interests include visual rhetoric, identity construction, and experiential learning pedagogy, with publications in Composition Studies, Reflections, and ImageText; and presentations at Frontiers in Education, Conference on College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of English, Florida Distance
robotwas used for about 25 years to teach undergraduate engineering students robotics concepts andapplications. Originally, the robot’s controller was connected via a 9-pin serial port to an Intel8088-based PC. The PC communicated with the robot via Q-Basic programming language runningunder the Disk Operating System (DOS). One group of students was exposed to two phases ofdevelopment, DosBox and MATLAB environments running in Windows 7 64-bit. Students’attitudes and perceptions surveys, students’ self-reflections statements, and individual studentinterviews, strongly indicated that the old robot with an upgraded computer environment is still acapable tool in developing industrial robotics programming skills.IntroductionIndustrial robots are an
competency are reflected in curricular and student activities. His interests also include Design and Engineering, the human side of engineering, new ways of teaching engineering in particular Electromagnetism and other classes that are mathematically driven. His research and activities also include on avenues to connect Product Design and Engineering Education in a synergetic way. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Designing a curriculum that helps students create connected narratives in electrical engineeringIntroductionThis paper proposes a framework for helping students construct conceptual narrative arcsthroughout a traditional Electrical Engineering
. James John Bale Jr., University of GeorgiaDr. Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia Nicola W. Sochacka is the Associate Director of the Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI) in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. Dr. Sochacka’s research interests span interpretive research methods, STEAM (STEM + Art) education, empathy, diversity, and reflection. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Epistemologies and a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering from the University of Queensland.Dr. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Dr. Joachim Walther is an Associate Professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia and the Founding Director of the Engineering Education
employers suggests a greater emphasis onattributes including flexibility, conscientiousness, integrity, problem solving, communication,and organizational skills [1]. ABET reflects these demands, outlining the desired skill-set ofengineering graduates to include: ● an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering ● an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences ● an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors ● an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams and ● an ability to identify, formulate, and solve
that is considered active learning?Think: Take a moment and make a list of the activitiesyou are already doing that employ these characteristics:• Relevant• Learner centered• Participatory• Reflective• Intentional Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering Education Session CEED 412•• Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering EducationWhy Use Active Learning Techniques?• Research studies have shown that when instructors switch their teaching
. After producing and submitting the videos, students were then required to perform ananonymous peer review of three classmates’ presentations. Additionally, one graduate student,not responsible for an example video, also performed an assessment of the videos. Finally, thestudents were required to provide guided self-reflections on their communication skills after theyhad completed their videos and performed and received peer reviews. It has been wellestablished that having students reflect on their own learning can enhance the learning process[6]. Self-reflection questions were chosen to encourage students to be critically reflective of theirown performance and consider how to improve their performance for future video submissions.Here are the
must make their own decisions to determine how best toproceed to complete their tasks. To support students in developing and engaging in self-directedlearning, students regularly engage in explicit metacognitive focused reflection activities. Forinstance, students may complete a metacognitive memo to reflect on the strategies used for aproblem solving activity. The overall process of engaging in their self-directed learning includesorganizing and documenting their learning as it happens, reflecting on the learning and learningprocesses on a frequent basis, making qualitative judgments on the quality of the learning, andthen making regulative changes to their learning strategies based on their judgments.MethodsParticipants and Procedure. We
, etc.) or have been created specifically for thecourse by the instructor or other subject matter experts. Further, live virtual guestspeakers are periodically incorporated. The use of open and/or custom created resourcesis an obvious economic benefit to students, but also allows the instructor to easilycustomize and update the course. Each week, students engage with print and/or videocontent through the learning management system and submit a variety of graded works.Weekly assignments vary by module, but a typical module may include a quiz, groupdiscussion and self-reflection assignment. Additional detail of module content andstructure will be presented in the next section.The updated course continues to cover core topics, with additional
of the collaboration. The authors aimed to demonstrate to thecampus that there were educational benefits to increasing the number of these types of courses.The Experiential-Learning, Crossover Activity The authors developed a series of common assignments used in both courses that woulddemonstrate these common themes from both the nanotechnology and science fictionperspectives. The crossover activity involved interdisciplinary, interactive, and collaborativelearning. Faculty knew from students’ written reflections on the crossover activity, that it had animpact on their experience. Although the faculty saw anecdotal evidence of its value, it wasunknown if the crossover activity improved student mastery of course outcomes. The
to develop and implement workable, appropriatesolutions [7], and that failures to do so can have consequences for their technologies [8]. Whileability to reflect on the context of engineering solutions is associated with their success in theprofession [9], training students to do this—and doing so in ways that are well-integrated into therest of a course—is by no means easy. As historian Atushi Akera has pointed out, althoughcurrent ABET criteria would ideally be considered a space for supporting educationalinnovation, these criteria are often just another set of requirements that educators must developstrategies to meet [10]. Indeed, ABET’s shift to focus on students as emerging professionals hasvaluable outcomes [11], but includes many
. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Research in SEAD Education at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the
evidence-based conceptsand practices, the activities were designed to be directly relevant to the course material, designedto enrich, not simply amend, course content. All efforts were based upon a conceptualframework for teamwork knowledge, skills and functionality that moves the knowledge ofteamwork into the practice of teamwork. The aim is for students to develop sustained practices incommunication, inclusion, self-reflection, conflict management and team norming. Here wereport progress of our efforts in the senior year, including discussion of assessment data, and endwith a brief view towards the longer-range goal of stretching the teaming instruction across thefour-year programs.Keywords: Teamwork, Engineering, Evidence-based
reflection, grounded in authentic software development settings. Tools in this project include process oriented guided inquiry learning, automated feedback to students through an intelligent tutoring system, case studies in software communication, and guided reflective exercises on team communication. As part of this research, the Ag- ile Communicators team has investigated communication practices in a variety of student and professional software development environments. Wallace has been intimately involved with undergraduate Computer Science curriculum development since his arrival in 2000. He cofounded Michigan Tech’s Software Engineering degree program in 2003. Wallace currently serves as Director of Undergraduate
, various aspects of diversity in the absence of an intrinsicallydiverse classroom composition, as well as allow them to reflect on their own professional andpersonal experiences. Specifically, this module includes activities about implicit bias, stereotypethreat, and cross cultural competence. Student response has largely been positive, and studentreflection assignments have demonstrated critical thinking on the matter. As this is a recent pilotintervention, long-term longitudinal effects have yet to be investigated. Included here aredescriptions of the module activities, generalized student responses, and instructor perspective.While this topic is of great importance to all educators, it is often difficult to incorporate suchmaterial in well
concerns. Simply asking ”What can Ido to help you learn better? What can you do to learn better?” helped students reflect on theirlearning behaviors, and in many cases, improved their experience throughout the course. Thisstrategy provided an opportunity for students to take more responsibility for their learning andvoice their feedback about the course. The assessments also helped the faculty member improvethe course in real time. With this approach, the instructor also identified a number of learningbottlenecks, where a significant number of students were having problems. This very simpleformative assessment strategy proved to be a powerful tool for creating a student-centeredcourse. Findings from this study included providing the instructors
Concept Presentation 10 6 Final Design Presentation 15 10 Final Design Report 15 11 Individual Design Debate 5 0 Reflective Essay No.1 10 5 Reflective Essay No. 2 10 11Data Collection MethodsDEFT is a web-based system that facilitates frequent student reporting of their