, MATLAB programming, etc.) Computer project and oral presentation Working additional material and energy balance problems (in class) to supplement the course material in a much smaller setting.The responsibilities of the peer mentor included: Support the goals, expectations, and mission statement of the Office of Undergraduate Education Help students become familiar with university resources; advise and refer students to appropriate university resources, as the need arises Work with university staff and faculty to create a supportive, inclusive environment for new transfer students Maintain two consistent hours of time per week when available to students in the Transfer Seminar course
developed to date. However, time andphysical space have shown to be a challenge to implementation. Initially, it was envisioned thateach ENGR 1110 section would eventually teach two Grand Challenges a semester. In order toretain other important class features such as the design project, one grand challenge per semesteris more realistic. Now that initial module development and testing has been performed by the PIsand evaluator, the goal is to engage more faculty in implementation and evaluation. This willfacilitate institutionalization and provide more information on the effect of the modules onnanotechnology knowledge, perceptions of engineering as an altruistic profession, and intent topersist in major. The existing modules will be incorporated
on managing creativity and innovation in the area of nano-enabled technologies.Prof. Bryan Douglas Huey, University of Connecticut ˜20 year scholar working with nanotechnology, especially the characterization of materials properties at the nanoscale by applying and advancing variations of Scanning Probe Microscopy.Dr. Leslie M Shor, University of Connecticut Leslie Shor is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. She mentors an interdisciplinary research team working at the interface of chemical engi- neering, microbiology, and advanced manufacturing. Current projects in her lab are focused on gradient bioengineering for next-generation biofuel production
the end of first semester only26% of the cohort had a GPA of 3.5 or above and 44% had a GPA of 3.0 or above.Justification of Variables Used to Create the Step Out to Stars Framework The review of literature presented here shows interest in engineering is a key reason thatstudents choose to study engineering, while loss of interest is also a key reason students leaveengineering. Since the other top indicators of value explored in the literature, job outlook orsalary projections for engineers, are not mentioned in studies investigating why students leaveengineering, interest is a logical measure of value to use when looking at engineering students’decisions to leave or to continue to study engineering. In fact, the justification for
the subsequent groups. Transfer-GEMS cohortparticipation for the 2014-2015 academic year (AY) is further illustrated in Figure 1. From thispoint will we refer to those participating in the program as “Transfer-GEMS” and all otherCEFNS transfer students as “Transfers”. AY 2014-2015 Figure 1. Transfer-GEMS Cohort 1 participation diagram.Theoretical FrameworkThe overarching theoretical framework of this project is linked to Bourdieu’s29 cultural capitalframework, that the “relevant knowledge, information, skills, and resources that individuals cangain that are as valuable as monetary resources” and his theory of social capital, made up ofsocial ‘connections’.30 Bourdieu’s framework
student perspectives and experiences guidedthis research on investigating the efficacy of many practices. As a result of successfullycompleting the project goals, a model from the graduate student perspective defining variouspractices, procedures, and policies proven to support the success of broadening participationefforts and underrepresented minority student success in STEM graduate education programswill be established. The establishment of the model is significant and will allow for nationaldissemination and improvement of program support for underrepresented minority graduatestudents in STEM fields.MethodologyParticipantsApproximately 91 students (N=91) nationally from 16 universities (Figure 1) primarily in theage range of 22-32 years
. AcknowledgementsThe authors are grateful for support provided through NSF MRI grant 1337787 and SyracuseUniversity, which enabled us to establish the core facility on campus and continues to providesupport for its operation. Dacheng Ren also received a Faculty Excellence Award from theCollege of Engineering & Computer Science at Syracuse, University which has supported thefacility in its educational outreach. We also thank the Sorenson lab at the University ofCopenhagen for sharing the donor strain, E. coli CSH26/pKJK10. References 1. Duderstadt, J. Engineering for a Changing World. The Millennium Project, University of Michigan (2008). 2. Harris, TR, JD Bransford, and SP Brophy. Roles for
and beliefs about engineering? 2. Do engineering perceptions or personal career values correlate with commitment to an engineering major? 3. Are these relationships present in a latent model?Methods This study used a causal-comparative quantitative design to compare differences in thefocal constructs (values, perceptions of engineering, and commitment to engineering) betweenmen and women. We administered a survey on engineering attitudes to a large sample of first-year students enrolled in a pre-engineering introductory course at a large four-year, researchfocused institution. The survey, which was administered as part of a larger project, includedscales related to students’ attitudes about engineering. In addition
. Fig. 7. Experimental setup using Kincet sensorRegarding to the implementation, we program on a computer with Intel Core i5-2430 2.0 GHzCPU, 4 GB DDR main memory. The Kinect sensor is connected to this computer through USBport. We program under 64-bit Windows 7 operating system with Kinect SDK 1.7, XNAS40 aswell as EmguCV version 2.9.0. The programming IDE for this project is Microsoft Visual Studio2010 with .NET framework 4.0.We have 72 volunteers including 38 female and 34 male, and ask them to walk in front of thesensor back and forth. The program records gait silhouettes as well as gender of the testedperson. Page 26.808.9The following are
working in a marketing research firm. Practicumexperiences also allow students to design and develop a project in which they applyknowledge and develop skills such as a doctoral student preparing the components of anonline course. Service Learning Experiences are distinguished by being mutually beneficial for bothstudent and community. Service learning is growing rapidly and is considered a part ofexperiential education by its very nature of learning, performing a job within the community,and serious reflection by the student. Service learning involves solving some of society'sissues; such as, homelessness, poverty, lack of quality education, pollution, etc. One of thegoals of service learning is to help students become aware of these issues
critical need for qualified engineering graduates to join the workforce. The mostrecent U.S. Bureau of Labor projections through 2020 show significant growth of jobs in thescience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. Marra1 et al states thatengineering and science fields will grow at more than 3 times the rate of other disciplines.However, in the midst of the demand, institutions of higher education are faced with thechallenge of retaining students within their engineering programs1-5. Student attrition has beenattributed to several factors including: student attitudes and a sense of belonging in discipline,preparation for the course material, and quality of teaching and compatibility with studentlearning styles1,6-10. Although
made.Initial course design The statics course considered here is part of a typical calculus-based engineeringmechanics sequence. Topics in the course include force and moment vectors, equilibrium,structural analysis, friction, centroids, and moments of inertia. The class meets three times aweek for 50 minutes over 15 weeks. The course has weekly assignments, four unit exams, afinal exam, and a design project. Some small changes were made to this outline in order toaccommodate “flipping” the class as detailed below. A learning management website was utilized to “flip” the statics course. The course siteconsisted of videos and notes to be viewed by students before class. It also containedassignments and student grades. Students obtained
time to generate test cases as the pro- gram graph provides visual aid for test case generation. 2. Improves the correctness of test cases. Students have more confidence when they practice white–box testing. 3. Increases students’ involvement. Students are interested in test automation and willing to keep working on the project for extension.5. Conclusion Page 26.42.11This paper presents a novel approach to build a program graph visualizer for teaching white-boxtesting techniques. The program graph is constructed from bytecode to handle compound condi-tion for a variety of testing coverage. The graph program visualizer
Fall 2014 (c) (d) Page 26.580.10 Q5: Giving the same working time and Student response to survey project, I prefer (% response). : 0 10 20 30 40 50 100 A: Strongly like 80 group cell % response 60 B: Like group
, reverse coded items weredesigned for three subscales. One male M.S. and one female Ph.D. students were involved inreviewing the items. The items were adjusted according to the students’ feedback before beingimplemented in this pilot study. Table 1 provides a sample item for each subscale.Table 1. Sample Items from the instrument used for the assessment Subscale Sample Item STEM Self-Efficacy I can do well in hands-on activities. STEM Expectations Math is important for achieving my future learning goals. Intrinsic Motivation Science/engineering projects are interesting. Extrinsic Motivation I will be able to use what I learn in the program to solve problems in daily life. Group Identification I have a lot in
). Developmental Mathematics: Challenges, Promising Practices, and Recent Initiatives. Journal of Developmental Education, 34(3), 2-10.9 Concannon, J. P., & Barrow, L. H. (2009). A Cross-Sectional Study of Engineering Students' Self-Efficacy by Gender, Ethnicity, Year, and Transfer Status. Journal of Science Education Technology, 18, 163-172.10 Marra, R. M., Rodgers, K. A., Shen, D., & Bogue, B. (2009). Women Engineering Students and Self-Efficacy: A Multi-Year, Multi-Institution Study of Women Engineering Student Self-Efficacy. Journal of Engineering Education, 98(1), 27-38.11 DiLisi, G., McMillin, K., & Virstek, M. (2011). Project WISE: Building STEM-Focused Youth-Programs that Serve the Community. Journal of
SREB-member states(Doctoral dissertation, TEXAS A&MUNIVERSITY-COMMERCE).San Jose State University (2015) https://bcme.sjsu.edu/BME%204%20Year%20PlanThe Economist (2012) “One State Two Systems”, August 11, 2012http://www.economist.com/node/21560290THECB (2014) Closing the Gaps 2014 Progress Reporthttp://www.thecb.state.tx.us/reports/PDF/5924.PDF?CFID=20361408&CFTOKEN=17353582THECB (2015)http://www.txhighereddata.org/Interactive/Institutionsshow.cfm?Type=1&Level=1Tienda, Marta and Sullivan, Teresa, (2015) “Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project”http://texastop10.princeton.edu/project.pdf, http://theop.princeton.edu/US Census (2015) http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.htmlZweben, S., & Bizot, B. (2014). 2013 Taulbee
, subject to areview of academic progress and financial eligibility. Some students were offered less than twoyears of support due to limited availability of project funds near the end of a grant period, and asmall number of students left the program.Activities. All S-STEM program activities were run or coordinated through the CoE’s EventsOffice with assistance from the Diversity Programs Office (DPO). The mission of the DPO is toprovide academic and non-academic support to increase enrollment, retention, and graduationamong under-represented minorities and women, but DPO services are available to all CoEstudents. The DPO collaborates with the university’s Learning Resource Center (LRC) toprovide academic support services and essay writing support
including Proportional Derivative(PD) controllers. An end of semester position tracking project, using a Quanser DC(direct current) controller unit, was the only hands-on experience provided. Due to thelimited availability of these units, students’ experience was limited to fifteen minutes ofexperiment verification of their PD controllers. The newly designed Lego labs wereintroduced in Fall 2014, and now impacts more than 100 students annually. The labsinclude (1) a time response of first order system and transfer function identification andverification, (2) a time response of second order system, and (3) a PD controller designfor a tracking problem. These lab activities in the System Dynamics course will evolveinto a one- credit lab course
toreal life.” Another seconded this: “The field has moved so far in industry, that there is a huge gapnow….we could complete the cycle of student learning by having people from industry seed thenext generation of scientists with the skills that industry needs to move forward.” A limitation ofour study is that it only focused on women. A future research project could include interviewingwomen and men who have successfully made the transition to academia without attending anOn-Ramps workshop. Our findings have implications for alternative hiring and recruitmentpractices in higher education.AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank the interview participants. This work was supported by theNational Science Foundation under grants HRD-0819407
do vary by position type and faculty are recommended toinquire about specific goals for teaching, research funding, and publications.It is recommended that tenure-track construction faculty actively encourage and recruit qualitystudents to participate in research. Undergraduate students should not be overlooked whenstaffing research projects. Often undergraduate research assistants are better prepared and more Page 26.1223.10likely to become successful graduate assistants. 9Construction faculty should not view tenure requirements as onerous and/or unattainable. Thereare many success stories at a
participate in the program.This paper will discuss the successes, obstacles, and best practices in developing andimplementing academic support programs for two-year college engineering students. Page 26.1244.21. IntroductionThere is a large push from multiple directions to increase the number of students in the UnitedStates graduating with STEM degrees. Recent projections show that there must be a 34%increase of students graduating in STEM fields within the next decade to allow the US to remaincompetitive on the world stage. (1) There are numerous academic routes for students to enter aSTEM field and due to the rising cost of traditional 4-year
, particularlycommunity service and humanitarian engineering projects, by creating intentional linkagesbetween the formal curriculum (e.g. developing global awareness) and these informal learningexperiences (e.g. engineering-related study abroad). Such linkages may be particularly effectivein helping develop students’ contextual awareness.” As engineering entrepreneurship education takes shape and continues to leverage co-curricular experiences for learning, Lattuca et al.’s findings suggest that a more in depth analysisof entrepreneurial co-curricular experiences in the context of the Terenzini and Reason’s collegeimpact framework is warranted. There is an organizational reliance on both entrepreneurshipacademic and co-curricular programs, required
calls for more well-rounded engineering graduates who cannavigate the global, economic, and environmental aspects of engineering problems 31,32. The Page 26.294.5NGSS in Appendix J 1 calls for making home and community connections by: “(1) increasingparental involvement and encouraging roles as partners in science learning, (2) engaging studentsin defining typically engineering problems and designing solutions of community projects, and(3) focusing on science learning in informal environments”. Also, Appendix F 1 mentionspiquing students curiosity towards real-world problems (such as energy, disease, fresh water andfood, climate change
proposals or conference presentations, or led discussions on educational research methods. 8. Understand your group’s interests Every institution will have different needs that can be met through a broader community of practice. Finding engaging ideas and projects for members is key to continued membership and attendance.Finding members of the DBER community to form a community of practice can be difficult.Places to look for DBER scholars include: Known discipline-based educational research faculty and their research groups Common educational courses that DBER scholars might take (e.g. research methods courses) Educational research presentations by graduate students
problems on the final hadbeen on previous exams. The scores on the exams were the primary mechanism for evaluatingthe efficacy of the flipped classroom pedagogy over the Think-Pair-Share pedagogy.Moreover, neither the author nor the students knew which pedagogy would be used beforeregistering for the Fall 2013 classes. The author had previous experience with the flippedclassroom and believes that it is important to have students in a classroom where they can gatherin small groups around tables and collaborate.20 Trine University has a Project-Based Learning(PBL) classroom that has movable tables so that students can more easily collaborate. Thisclassroom is generally used by the School of Education, but can be used by other faculty subjectto
Paper ID #16303Don’t Look at Your Shoes! Getting Engineers and Scientists to Engage withAudiencesDr. Scott A. Morris, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Scott A. Morris received his PhD in Agricultural Engineering in1992 from Michigan State University and has worked in industry both directly and as a consultant on a wide range of projects. Based at the University of Illinois since 1992, Dr. Morris developed a nationally-recognized research and teaching program, and was one of the first faculty members to offer asynchronous computer-based online content. Dr. Morris teaches engineering courses both on the Urbana
: Visualization of Rotations) for secondary and under- graduate students, developed the TESS (Teaching Engineering Self-efficacy Scale) for K-12 teachers, and rescaled the SASI (Student Attitudinal Success Inventory) for engineering students. As a program evaluator, she evaluated the effects of teacher professional development (TPD) programs on elementary teachers’ attitudes toward engineering and students’ STEM knowledge through a NSF DRK-12 project. As an institutional data analyst, she is investigating engineering students’ diverse pathways to their suc- cess.Dr. Johannes Strobel, University of Missouri Dr. Johannes Strobel is Full Professor, School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at Uni- versity of
personal networks, as well those of our project advisory board members. Due toour focus on the participants’ personal testimonies of their unearned advantages anddisadvantages, we chose not to select or reject any participant based on our perception of theirrace, gender, sexual orientation or any other demographic characteristic. In an effort to be opento the unseen dimensions of participants’ experiences, we are not making assumptions abouttheir realities. To date, some participants revealed how they self-identify with traditionaldemographic characteristics during their testimony, while others did not.MethodsThroughout our entire research process, we utilize the quality management framework developedby Walther, Sochacka, and Kellam as a guide for
, medical students, andclinicians (orthopaedic surgeons, physical therapists, and general practitioners). Each programcan accommodate up to 40 students. Students are recruited through STEM non-profit affiliates,e.g., Project Lead The Way, Girl Scouts, and via social media and contacting large, urban schooldistricts. Students apply online through the program’s website and are selected based on thequality and composition of two essays. Academic performance, e.g., GPA, class rank, or APcoursework, is purposefully not considered in the application. Racial information is collected atthe time of application; however, it is blinding during the selection process and only analyzedafter students are notified of their acceptance to the program. Results of