an important consideration in qualitative research efforts, as itserves as evidence of the integrity of research findings19, 20. There are various ways to establishtrustworthiness, and Creswell (2012)15 recommends using at least two in each study. We usedtriangulation (multiple investigators/coders analyzed the data) and peer examination (a peer whowas not involved in coding examined the meanings and interpretations that were applied to andemerged from the data) to establish trustworthiness19.Results and DiscussionThe primary purpose of this study was to describe the learning experience in a large Mechanicscourse from the students’ point of view, and to see how it aligns with perceptions expressed byfaculty who taught some of the courses
Paper ID #16014An Expanded Study to Assess the Effect of Online Homework on StudentLearning in a First Circuits CourseDr. Katie Evans, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Katie Evans is the Walter Koss Endowed Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and the Academic Director of Mathematics and Statistics and Industrial Engineering programs. She is the Di- rector of the Integrated STEM Education Research Center (ISERC) and the Director of Louisiana Tech’s Office for Women in Science and Engineering (OWISE). She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics and M.S. in Mathematics at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Her research
,” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Jul. 2021. Accessed: Jan. 04, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/diversity-and-inclusion-lessons-that-support-the-traditional-civil-engin eering-curriculum[34] K. Larsen and J. Gärdebo, “Retooling Engineering for Social Justice: The use of explicit models for analytical thinking, critical reflection, and peer-review in Swedish engineering education,” International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace, pp. 13–29, Dec. 2017, doi: 10.24908/ijesjp.v5i1.8928.[35] D. I. Castaneda, J. D. Merritt, and J. A. Mejia, “Integrating an engineering justice approach in an undergraduate engineering mechanics course,” in 2021 IEEE Frontiers in
AC 2010-1161: AN ATOMIC BONDING MODULE FOR MATERIALSENGINEERING THAT ELICITS AND ADDRESSES MISCONCEPTIONS WITHCONCEPT-IN-CONTEXT MULTIMODAL ACTIVITIES, WORKSHEETS, ANDASSESSMENTSStephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is Professor in the School of Materials in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and education, design and selection of materials, general materials engineering, polymer science, and characterization of materials. His research interests are in innovative education in engineering and K-12 engineering outreach. He worked on Project Pathways, an NSF
affected: “At the time, I guess I should have asked who are the stakeholders, because it was my first time in charge of an engineering project at a company. And I guess I assumed all the information given to me is all the information I needed, which was very wrong. I should have asked what actually is at stake here? Who's affected by it? How critical is it to have it done by this deadline? How much testing do they need to do when it's no longer in my hands and in someone else's hands? So I think I started further understanding the project and its necessity to the launch more and more as I attended more meetings, and more engineers were asking how we were going to integrate this sensor, who needed to
, linear and nonlinear systems, and telecommunications.Prof. Kelilah Wolkowicz, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Kelilah Wolkowicz is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the UMass Lowell. Kelilah studies problems in healthcare that could be solved by applying design, control theory, and robotics. Her research focuses on developing methods and mechanisms to further enhance or promote user indepen- dence, while addressing users’ needs to remain, as much as possible, integrated socially and productively as members of their communities. Kelilah is an engineering faculty advocate for the River Hawks Scholar Academy, an engineering faculty fellow for DifferenceMaker, and a faculty advisor for the Society of
increase belonging for all students, for BLI and women students, and thatwould reduce equity gaps between student groups. However, faculty were collectively less willingto incorporate something new in their class, given the constraints of their curriculum (83% verywilling, 17% slightly willing), to give up time for course content in exchange for an activity thatenhances learning (83% very willing, 17% moderately willing), and to give up time for coursecontent in exchange for an activity that closes equity gaps (67% very willing, 33% moderatelywilling).Faculty members reported a high degree of self-efficacy related to the intervention tasks. Allrespondents agreed or strongly agreed that they felt prepared to engage in class discussions ontopics
of locating, discovering, and studying local, state, and federal regulations/codes. The curriculum is integrated with laboratory exercises that emphasize blueprint reading, quantity takeoff and learning software packages used in cost estimating and project scheduling and controls.”Table 1 summarizes major course parameters that may affect student engagement and learningfor falls 2017 and 2018. Except not using poll (2017) and using poll (2018), both semesters weresimilar for most of the parameters. The course content consisted of three parts: (i) projectmanagement concepts and cost estimating; (ii) project financial evaluation; and (iii) projectscheduling and controls. As the summative assessments of these three parts, three
, beliefs, self-regulation, and achievement.Min Tang, College of Education, Learning and Cognition Program,Florida State University The research interests of mine are: 1) to understand teachers’ pedagogical practices and the potential effects of those practices on students’ critical thinking and epistemic beliefs in engineering domain, 2) to quantify epistemically-related emotions that occur during the epistemic activity, 3) to explore the best pedagogical practices to improve the efficiency integrating classroom project-based learning and students’ real-world problem-solving practice. I have MS degree from Florida State University in Curriculum and Instruction and BA degree from China Nanchang University in English
4 N/A N/A 3.69 8 3.69 8 Evaluate the integrated circuit 2 N/A N/A 2 8 2 8 Identify mitigation options for ambient light 1 N/A N/A 1 8 1 8C. Surveys and Other Assessment MechanismsFormal surveys directly related to the use of AD2 units in these scripted laboratories were notoffered to students, but students did complete pre/post-project surveys affiliated with the follow-on wearable ECG design. These surveys, described in detail in an ASEE 2018 paper [23], askedstudents to rate their understanding of each of a number of topics according to a five-point Likertscale, where a “1” indicated no understanding and a “5” indicated full understanding
Paper ID #28808Oral Formative Assessment as a Means to Increasing Total Learning andEngagement in an Engineering University ClassroomDr. Kristen M Ward, Arizona State University Kristen Ward has been teaching engineering at Arizona State University for the past six years. She is motivated by the individual successes of her students and continues to search for new ways to teach engineering and connect with her students.Dr. Yingyan Lou, Arizona State University Dr. Lou is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at ASU specializing in intelligent transportation systems. She has been teaching the Numerical Methods for
Paper ID #25362Intercultural Competency Differences between U.S. and Central Asian stu-dents in an Engineering Across Cultures and Nations Graduate CourseDr. Dena Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Lang is the Associate Director of the Engineering Leadership Research Program at Penn State Uni- versity. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University, an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Kinesiology with a focus on Biomechanics from Penn State University. Dr. Lang’s previous professional experiences and research interests range from mechanical engineering
, and life in constantfear. After my family found refuge in the U.S. and I chose physics as my focus of study, Ilearned that my “otherness” also expanded to being a woman who wanted to learn sciences,being pretty in an academic domain where “prettiness” wasn’t allowed, being feminine in a placewhere the ticket to belong had “masculinity” written all over it. To date, I am still “othered:” awoman in a hard domain of engineering, a scientist by training working in an engineeringcollege, a humanist in the environment of technologists. I have also “othered” myself by choicethrough going rogue and focusing my intellectual vitality efforts in the space of education,shifting away from quantitative towards qualitative research paradigm, integrating
Computer Science and Software Engineeringinstitution. In this study, perceived usefulness and ease of use were integrated with factors such asteaching practices, intrinsic factors, and efficacy problems with learning intentions. Theyconcluded that of these factors, effective teaching, perceived usefulness, and correct intrinsicmotivations are needed to motivate students to aspire to learn. They also concluded that thesetechniques must be coupled with face-to-face communication in e-learning to provide immediatehelp during programming problems. Mi et al. (2018) compared an incentive and reward modelgame called, GamiCRS with traditional teaching methods aimed to enhance student motivation tolearn code readability using TAM. The results from this
Engineering Education, 2024 Lighting a Pathway to Energy Transitions: Collecting, interpreting and sharing engineering designs and research data across a school-based agrivoltaics citizen science network (Resource Exchange)Grade level: 1-12 Time: School year integration Standards Focus: NGSS 3-5 ETSThe Sonoran Photovoltaics Laboratory (SPV Lab) is a network of K-12 students and teachers,scientists, engineers, and community partners encouraging equitable, lasting, sustainableenergy transitions. Specifically, SPV Lab is developing an innovative model for school-basedcitizen science that supports a networked approach to building knowledge in agrivoltaics, a
considered the ways in whichethical decision-making is taught to students at their institution and the learning objectives oftheir programs. Both groups integrate ethics across the curriculum by introducing ethical issuesand discussion of problems or hypothetical cases in different courses in ways that are relevant tothe course content. For example, marketing courses include discussion of ethical issues inadvertising. In the Introduction to Engineering course, students view a video depicting an ethicaldilemma such as “Incident at Morales”20, hear a lecture from the instructor, engage in a classdiscussion, do a reading assignment that includes other scenarios, and write a report analyzingthose scenarios. Arkansas Tech University offers an elective
Rod Foist, Xuping Xu, Timothy Gage, Seth Truitt, and Matthias Schmidt California Baptist University, rfoist@calbaptist.edu, xxu@ calbaptist.edu, MatthiasHans.Schmidt@calbaptist.edu, TimothyDean.Gage@calbaptist.edu, Seth.Truitt@calbaptist.eduAbstract – Recent National Science Foundation (NSF) Chu’s work is motivated by an earlier 5-year study ofresearch, aimed at improving the Electrical and engineering education [2] which found a deficiency in theComputer Engineering (ECE) curriculum across all four curricula: subjects are taught in isolation, without properyears, makes strategic use of laboratory projects. The context, and do not adequately prepare students
University, Mankato, home of the Iron Range and Twin Cities Engineering programs.Rob Sleezer (Associate Professor, Twin Cities Engineering) Rob Sleezer serves as an associate professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato. As an active member in ASEE and IEEE Rob works to connect the learning of engineering to the practice of engineering. He supports learning across the breadth of electrical engineering and facilitates a seminar where student engineers engage in design and professional learning. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com “But I’m not an Engineer”… Collaboration
their help with the writing of this paper.References[1] L. Dee Fink, Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses,Jossey-Bass, 2013.[2] G. Wiggins & J. McTighe, Understanding by Design, Association for Supervision andCurriculum Development, 2005.[3] D. R. Krathwohl, A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy: An Overview, Theory Into Practice, Vol.41, No. 4, pp. 212-218, 2002.[4] Saskatoon Public Schools, Instructional Strategies Online. Available:http://schools.spsd.sk.ca/curriculum/instructionalstrategies/.[5] American Psychological Association, Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education, Top20 Principles from Psychology for PreK–12 Teaching and Learning. Available:http://www.apa.org/ed
scholars who applied for 2021 dropped from an average of 30 scholarsto only 10. A drastic change in the recruitment efforts for the program were implemented to helpincrease the number of applicants and scholars for 2022. These recruitment efforts for 2022 willbe discussed in more details below.The GCSP’s competencies are designed to prepare the scholars for future engineering leadershipcareers and to better equip them to solve these complex and global challenges. The fivecompetencies include talent, multidisciplinary curriculum, entrepreneurship, multiculturalism,and social consciousness (Fig. 1).Fig. 1. The five components of the GCSP.All five competencies must be undertaken by the scholars throughout their participation in thescholars program
alsogives the student a head start for success in courses that come later in the curriculum with the expectationthat early exposure to various topics in engineering will lead to improved student success and retention.The course has a heavy emphasis on laboratory activities with an equally strong focus on ‘just-in-time’theory. The learning platform of the course is a magnetic ball levitator, and the course prepares thestudents to be able to design and construct the levitator system by the end of the semester. Theengineering topics have been selected in a way that they are central to accomplishing the project goal, andthe laboratory exercises provide them with the hands-on experience necessary to complete the project.The course has been offered six
other hand, they report that innovative instruction can lead toimprovements in student beliefs. A project based design (graphic, industrial, interiorphotographic and fashion) curriculum, and a business curriculum promoting self reflection bothresulted in statistically significant increases in deep approach scores as measured by the SPQ.Although conventional lecture-based educational practices tend to reinforce more naive beliefs,innovative instruction can develop more expert-like beliefs, which in turn can promote learning.Over the last four years, the WISE Learning Tool has become an increasingly integralcomponent of the Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering (CBEE) curriculum atOSU, and has been integrated into the three courses
similar in form to reflective teachingpractice [27], an approach to teaching that requires identifying one’s own teaching practices,assessing teaching effectiveness, considering student engagement, and subsequently revisingone’s teaching practices. In this way, instructors are constantly examining their own pedagogyand making changes as needed – an essential practice whether they are adopting a new approachor using their own preferred methods and curriculum. Applied to Sarah’s situation, after an initialadoption decision she was continuously making adaptation decisions in an effort to meet herstudents’ individual needs, and by extension to better align with her local context. Sarah quicklyrecognized the need for such adaptation and, instead of
certainly requires learning many new concepts and a new vocabulary of terms.In order to facilitate this process some enhanced learning techniques have beenincorporated into this course.Enhanced teaching Methods:Various methods used at the Oregon Institute of Technology and other collaboratingUniversities have evolved over several years while working on an National ScienceFoundation (NSF) grant incorporating ‘Just In Time Fast Formative Feedback’. Thesemethods were initially applied in 100 and 300 level ‘Materials Science’ courses forengineers and engineering technology undergraduate students. It was soon realized thatthese methods could easily be effective in other engineering courses and this is when itwas decided to integrate these ideas into an
Amazon (Figure 1). The kit selected was the “Freenovo 4wd car kitFNK0041”, since included all the necessary parts to be self-contained, programed using Arduinoand remote operated capability via a smartphone using Bluetooth. An integrated, open-endeddesign project seems to have best overall outcomes as far as learning effectiveness and futureengineering self-confidence goals [24]. Students were first introduced to Arduino circuits forprogramming the cars. Then, worked in teams to assemble and test the car kit followinginstructions that were prepared specifically for the camp. There was also a lesson module onbuilding solid models in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) program, with students learning basicextrusions, revolutions and sweeps with the aim
seen asa field that is reserved for those who can endure the tough courses. At the same time, the realitiesand lived experiences of students of color such as around microaggressions and dailydiscrimination are neglected. There is an “unquestioned assumption” that knowledge inengineering is race- and gender- free [57]. There seems to be no recognition of theethnocentricity of the curriculum and the accepted epistemologies. Although students of colorare “holders and creators of knowledge” [68, p. 106] and contribute to the engineering field, thisknowledge differs from the perceived “bourgeois norms” in engineering.Classical engineering education philosophy situates engineering as a field where the ways ofthinking, doing and being are
findings of an international survey and possible implications for the engineering curriculum. European Journal of Engineering Education, 30, 1, 1-19.19. Lent, R.W., Brown, S.D. & Hackett, G. (1994) Toward a unifying social cognitive theory of career and academic interest, choice, and performance. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 45, 79-122.20. Lent, R.W., Brown, S.D., Schmidt, J., Brenner, B., Lyons, H. & Treistman, D. (2003) Relation of Contextual Supports and Barriers to Choice Behavior in Engineering Majors: Test of Alternative Social Cognitive Models. Journal of Counseling, 50, 4, 458–465.21. Lent, R.W., Brown, S.D., Sheu, H.-B., Schmidt, J., Brenner, B.R., Gloster, C.S., Wilkins, G., Schmidt, L.C., Lyons, H. &
using modular 80/20™ framing which permitted modularity inthe design which the team determined would serve both their mission and the prototyping andrefinement process inherent in any complex system design. Clear PVC hulls were used for theport and starboard electrical storage, and an acrylic tube was used in the front for its opticalqualities which were necessitated by the visual nature of some of the sensors.Figure 4: Final Prototype Model Page 26.110.12Vehicle Control SoftwareAll vehicle command, control, and communication as well as sensor data integration, and vehiclelocalization were handled by software developed by the student team using a
Paper ID #9632Engineering habits of the mind - an undergraduate course that asks: ”Whatis it that makes someone an engineer?” and ”What distinguishes engineersfrom other professionals?”Prof. Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology Joe Le Doux is the Executive Director for Learning and Student Experience in the Department of Biomed- ical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He has also previously served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies for the Department. Dr. Le Doux’s research interests in engineering education focus on problem-solving, diagrammatic reasoning, and on the socio-cognitive
Page 14.1102.2following the summer professional development institute.Previous research on the integration of innovative science curricula has indicated that curriculumchange/reform ultimately hinges on the classroom teacher.5, 6 Moreover, the process ofintegrating new content into an existing curriculum is a complex process in which teachers oftenencounter challenges including: lack of resources (e.g., new science equipment), absence ofadministrative and peer support, lack of time to plan and teach new lessons, and insufficientcontent knowledge.5, 6 Research also has shown that science teachers’ beliefs about teaching andlearning as well as their beliefs about the conditions of the classroom and external teachingconditions influence their