this orother process of deeper inquiry.Instructors can also receive useful feedback. Obviously, the results of an initial poll give awindow into what students initially grasp. Later, after repolling, the instructor can view thechange in the students’ responses and reflect upon the effectiveness (or lack thereof) ofadditional comments or explanations. It is indeed humbling for an instructor to experiencenegligible or even “incorrect” changes among students’ responses after “the perfect explanation”has been given. Hopefully, this is part of a formative process in which instructors can betteranticipate what students reasonably can – and cannot – absorb within a certain scope ofconversation or allotted time.Student Feedback:All three cohorts were
individual peer evaluation of the ideas presented in another team’s projectposter. Second, it was used for team self-evaluation and review of their final draft. Finally,students were asked to reflect on the sheet in their final course reflections by responding to theprompt: “Consider your project and the ones you reviewed for your teammates, as well as thecase studies we looked at in class. Would this sheet help problem solvers catch problems oridentify risks before they happen? Give your suggestions for improvement.”Generally, the students found the sheet comprehensive and helpful for identifying issues theymight not have otherwise considered. One said, “Something as simple as this would have beenable to avoid, at the very least dampen, some of the
reflect on their mentoring practices to be a rewarding experience. We suggest thatpotential and current RIEF grantees should consider these themes and their personal preferencesas a mentor or as a mentee in order to improve and deepen their experience with RIEFmentorship.Limitations. The primary limitation of the study is the specific set of circumstances regardingthe population interviewed. The power dynamics at play between the mentors and mentees andthe expert-to-expert style of mentorship is potentially not generalizable to the training of otherengineering education researchers, such as graduate students. While a relatively large sample ofRIEF grantees was interviewed, potentially offering a strong profile of RIEF grantees, most ofthe
to themas long as they are UIC students.For the non-therapeutic content, the research team leaned heavily into the work being done bythe Office for Research on Student Success, particularly a tool called Non-Cognitive Profiles(Appendix). The percentages to the right reflect all students who participated in the survey. Forparticipating students, the areas of highest concern were identified as the student’s likelihood toseek help/view help-seeking as non-intimidating and the student’s confidence that s/he willbelong in college. To address the academic help-seeking, the research team attempted tonormalize interactions with professors, which can often be intimidating to new students. Anengineering faculty member either lead or co-facilitated
possess elementary knowledge of aerodynamics and flight dynamicsbasics, which are typically part of the background at the junior/senior level. They should be familiarwith the geometry, role, and functionality of the aerodynamics control surfaces, as well as with thedifferential equations of motion reflecting the relationships between pilot inputs and the dynamicresponse of the aircraft [11, 12].Prior to performing the lab assignment, two to three lectures are dedicated to discussing the gen-eral types of malfunctions and damages affecting primary control actuators and their implicationson producing aerodynamic control forces and moments. Special attention is given to the jammedcontrol surface scenario, which is the target of the lab
opportunities.Qualitative ResultsQualitative feedback from KickStarter participants collected in regular surveys during theprogram indicate that the KickStarter process is highly valuable in building strategic STEMeducation research capacity at the 24 participating 2-yr HSIs. Participants have also reportedimproved ability to achieve other federal grants. Examples of qualitative comments include:KickStarter has provided us with the infrastructure to develop a strong leadership team,evidence-based goals and a strategic action plan, and well-written proposals that reflect NSF'sambitions.Everyone at the college involved in STEM agrees about the goals in the STEM plan. Making thegoals more tangible and focused is helping us to anchor proposals in a way we
learning, project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, andchallenge-based learning.In the Control Systems course in the Electronic Systems Engineering Technology (ESET)program at Texas A& M University, students were introduced to the Maker Culture in class.Laboratories were re-structured to support students’ effort to work on course projects that theychose on their own. This had a positive impact on the motivation of the students. A Mini-MakerFaire was organized at the end of the semester where student did demo and presentation. Theproject evaluation was also changed to reflect the Maker Culture spirit: whether your designworks or not is not as important as what you learned in the process.Although the subject has been discussed by many
(includingcommunicating, persuading others, setting goals, and problem solving), and suggest that futureresearch also evaluate cognitive and affective outcomes, as these have been shown to beimportant in shaping behaviors (Kahle & Berman, 1979). Their review also indicated that mostprograms used approaches to program implementation that were convenient and inexpensive andsuggest that programs should include more practice, such as reflective activities, role-play, goalsetting, and games. Given that the majority of programs used self-report assessments, Reyes etal. also suggest that researchers consider best practices for program evaluation, in particular, toavoid endogeneity concerns within the evaluation data. Through their meta-analysis, theyidentified
of Science Categories assigned to each paper.In total, 94 separate Categories were present. Table 1 shows the results of all Web of ScienceCategories applied to at least 4% of papers (60 or more articles). A table with the rest of thecategory results can be found in Appendix A. In Web of Science, multiple Categories can beassigned to each journal or publication, so records will often have two to four Categoriesassigned to them. This is reflected in our results, as the sum of the papers in each categoryexceeds the number of papers examined (1408) and the summed percentages exceeds 100%. Table I Web of Science Categories applied to systematic reviews
reflect on their full rangeof projects. We conducted one focus group interview with three students from one team in energyengineering and six individual interviews with students from energy engineering, civil engineering,and computer engineering (Table 2). Since this is a work-in-progress, we reported our primaryfindings based on the group interview and six individual interviews. In our next step, for triangulationand enrich data with different aspects of students’ learning experiences in PBL, we planned to conductfocus group interviews firstly, and then invite same students from focus group interviews toparticipant in individual interviews.In the data analysis process, all interviews involved in this study were transcribed and reviewedcarefully
process [22].Kolb’s model draws heavily upon the concept of learning styles and several of the forgoingsuppositions have elements of learning style doctrine within them. According to Healey andJenkins [24], learning styles reflect a diversity of environmental considerations including thoseattributable to gender and cultural differences. Willingham, et al. [25] and others [26]–[28],however, contend that there are inherent problems with the learning styles theories and that theylack scientific rigor.Kolb’s model suggests that experiential learning can be characterized as a four-phase cyclicmodel. Under this model, learners (1) have an experience, (2) reflect on the experience, (3)conceptualize what they have experienced into a model or theory and
questions, three map to the environment. Gendered effects of performance in CS areinfluenced by the social environment, whereas programming experience in high school or undergraduateeducation beyond introductory CS is reflective of the opportunity that students have in their pre-collegeenvironment. We also take students’ grades in the linear algebra course to be reflective of theirenvironment, rather than their ability, because the programming assignment we study involved forming anAx = b matrix from a set of equations. Based on students’ difficulty with this concept in class, wehypothesized that having prior knowledge of linear algebra would be helpful on this programmingassignment. And therefore, students who had the opportunity to take advanced
the needto increase the number of URM graduate students, and also reflects the importance of includingour URM undergraduate students in the program. White Asian/PI Latinx Black 14 Number of Participants 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 2.5 (Sp'19
place whereall their needs will be met. Similarly, caregivers, such as physicians, nurses, therapists andmedical or biological researchers, find a place where their efforts to aid those in need of care arenot hampered by real-world limitations in time and resources.Figure 4: Caring IslandAnalysis of DataAs mentioned earlier, the literature reflects the difficulties in identifying reliable assessment toolsfor ethics education. [7, 8] A mixed methods approach has been employed to gather data aboutstudent self-assessment of course efficacy overall and of individual aspects of the course.Students answered survey questions, in addition to filling out freeform comments. Feedback wassolicited from former students in GESM 121: Science, Literature and
, findings, conclusions andrecommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation.References[1] J. Roy, Engineering by the numbers. Engineering College Profiles & Statistics ASEE, 2019.[2] N. Dlodlo and R. N. Beyers, “The experience of girls in a fabrication engineering environment,” Gender Technol. Develop., vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 127-135, 2009.[3] APS Physics, Bachelor’s degrees earned by African Americans, by major. https://www.aps.org/programs/education/statistics/aamajors.cfm accessed Nov 24, 2019.[4] A. A. Bergerson, B. K. Hotchkins, and C. Furse, “Outreach and identity development: new perspectives on college student persistence,” J. College Stud. Retention, vol
springs and valves, not to mention water passages and holesfor fasteners.”“This project was my real first use of editable parameters in CATIA, which undoubtedly is goingto be useful. I also got a better sense of how to design things in such a way that they won't allbreak the second I change a little detail up in the design tree.”“I had a basic understanding of port flow characteristics, but had no idea about tapering thecross-sectional area towards the valve or how important the shape of the bottom edge of therunner meeting the valve seat was. Also, how the shape is ideally a D sort of shape and howoften car manufacturers throw that out of the window (looking at you, LS cathedral-portheads).”Student comments reflect improvements in student
helped them smoothly into the stage ofsenior project design. Exposing them to the powerful ARM MCUs challenged them with reading thousandsof pages of technical documents, but also trained them to grasp skills required by future industrialprojects. Students’ reflection on this effectiveness will be given later in Section IV.III. Efforts in Meeting Students’ Needs from Different DisciplinesStarting 2017, UWT launched the EE program, and TCES430 was offered to both CES and EE students as abig class. This brought new challenges to effective teaching due to (1) the large class size (2) diverseengineering backgrounds of the student group.Our efforts to ensure students’ learning outcomes include the following: (1) To maximize project-centered
and frameworks for engineering education need to support development of technicalaptitude and general (meta) competencies [25, 26], that is, those skill sets that enable students tocommunicate effectively, work in teams, operate in complex organizations, meet quality standards,and transfer task-specific skills to new challenges or tasks [27, 28]. Our proposed development ofadvanced UAS technical professionals will be grounded in Kolb’s [29] work, which provides amodel of experiential learning with four stages (i) Concrete Experience: the learner must be willingand actively involved in the experience; (ii) Reflective Observation: the learner must be able toreflect on the experience; (iii) Abstract Conceptualization: the learner must possess
activities, the annual reporting expectations (to NSF), budgetingguidelines, and plans for attending/presenting-at the ATE grantee conferences, among others.Being a 3-year project with a broad array of intended tasks/deliverables, the majority of year-oneactivities were focused on starting up the sub-tasks outlined under goal-1. This primarilyincluded the curriculum road mapping efforts that are intended to gather feedback fromstakeholders (especially, from industry) on what they perceive the knowledge/skill-needs of anIndustry 4.0 worker to be are. Further, the industry will also be encouraged to reflect on whatthey perceive is missing from some of their current workforce as well as what their futureprojected new needs might be. To facilitate this
progresses. This places those studentsat a disadvantage relative to their peers, as they have difficulty understanding and masteringadvanced topics. The knowledge gap also often results in the repetition of topics and prolongedlab sessions, as well as more serious issues such as the mishandling of equipment.STEM instruction typically is based on verbal, deductive, reflective, and sequential learningmethods. However, studies show that students in science and engineering programs tend to dowell with visual, inductive, active, and global learning methods. With this information in mind,we developed custom pre-lab videos to address the knowledge gap. The pre-lab videosdemonstrate basic usage and implementation of laboratory equipment, software tools
, followed by reflection upon whatthey have done. Bonwell and Eison [1] stated “that in active learning, students participate in theprocess and students participate when they are doing something besides passively listening." Thegoal of active learning activities is to actively involve students in the teaching and learningprocess in order to increase student engagement, performance, and retention [2].Despite the considerable published research in the literature [3-6] showing the advantage ofactive learning approaches in STEM and engineering education and its impact on increasingstudents performance, many instructors still do not implement active learning in their teachingcurriculum. The time required to design, implement and revise an active learning
asked each participant to provide feedback on the usefulness of each of thesessions during the program. Survey data using a 5-point Likert scale rating each session as notat all useful to extremely useful is depicted in Figure 2. As Figure 2 denotes, participants deemedthe Faculty Panel most useful. As a caveat, we note that this may not necessarily reflect interestor lack thereof in a topic but may reflect how the topic was delivered.Figure 2. Usefulness of each session during the program.Overall impact of program on future career choiceA content analysis of participants’ perception of the overall impact of the program on their futurecareer choice showed the most frequent response to be motivation (summarized in Table 5). Asdefined in Table 3
Thinking. Weconclude with a reaffirmation of the direction taken by the NEET pilots and a summary ofnext steps.II. A Snapshot of the NEET ProgramA. Why MIT Decided to Embark on the New Engineering Education TransformationProgramPresent-day industry seeks employees with skills that go beyond the technical skills acquiredin a standard engineering program, the so-called “non-technical” skills, some of which arenormally not acquired during traditional undergraduate education [1], [2]. The need forstudents to acquire those skills is reflected in a paper produced by the Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Development (OECD) [3] and the US National Research Council[4]. More specifically in higher engineering education, the student outcomes [5] of
reduced the modulesneeded to house components and allowed to package the entire system into just 2 different housings. Backhousing secured the Pixy camera, the battery, an Arduino Nano and the ambient light sensor while HUDhousing restrained the OLED and mirrors to reflect the message to the users eyeline. The latest design hadan adjustable HUD module that could move 1.5” vertically and 75◦ horizontally across the face of the wearer.The team was able to reduce the weight of the housings to less than 1 lb. Even with the components theoverall weight became less than similar products seen on the market [9].Electrical Design1. Arduino Nano: This is a lightweight microcontroller operating at 5 V and 19 mA. There are 22 digital pins and 8 analog pins
1 Ask someone (question 1 options k and l combined compared to question 4 option j) 8SummaryThe incorporation of lifelong learning into a hands-on, technology focused, standards driven,engine systems laboratory course was explored in this study. The current assignment of atechnical video was used as the structure to assess lifelong learning in the participants. Thestudent activity was to prepare a reflective assessment of their video assignment and drawconnections to a real-life industry problem that they may face in their first few years in theircareers. The results of the assessment show that students are able to identify resources used in aclass assignment and are able to project which resources
sharepedagogical approaches), collaborative problem solving (e.g., groups work together to design aviable lesson), communication, and teamwork (Hirsch et al., 2001). The interdisciplinarypartnership was built to promote undergraduate students learning through interaction with othersin their teams while building a common understanding (Svinicki, 2004). Students learnedthrough creating and delivering engineering content through collaborative processes that promotesocial learning including researching and planning, peer mentoring, teaching and receivingfeedback, and reflecting on and revising their content. All these processes took place withongoing support and feedback from subject matter experts in education and engineering. 3. MethodThis study was
in relative isolation from oneanother. Students were asked to complete the activity individually although some students werediscussing during the session and the instructional team did not intervene to limit this. It has beenshown that having students reflect on their past work can be beneficial for learning [11], and avisual representation such as concept maps can be easily used for this. Departments can useconcept maps to assess what students are drawing from the curriculum, as well as discoveringareas that are considered essential but perhaps are not front of mind for students, therebyexposing areas for potential improvement.Options for further study could include expanding the study to the end of the second term orfuture years. This may
revised lessons and reflections on the implementation and itssuccess back to the program leaders. While on campus, the teachers attended professionaldevelopment sessions including presentations about engineering majors and careers, discussionsabout gender dynamics and teaming, specifically with CATME, a system of web-based tools thatenable instructors to implement best practices in managing student teams. To help teachersconnect design elements and projects with outreach to solve the needs of a community, teachersparticipated in a three-day Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) K-12 workshop.Their session culminated in a poster presentation for CISTAR faculty, staff, and graduatestudents.REU ProgramSeven undergraduate students
system, universities need to createknowledge and develop technology to carry out scientific and technologicalinnovation activities.[16]The performance of scientific and technologicalinnovation in universities reflects the quality and level of university construction. Itis the evaluation of the high level of scientific and technological innovationproduced by universities through the effective transformation of academic factorsand the input of scientific and technological innovation activities in the ways ofknowledge innovation, achievement transformation ,and management innovation.Studies have shown that patents are a direct indicator of knowledgeaccumulation.[17]Therefore, the performance of scientific and technologicalinnovation in universities
generated hashtags. This platform was user-friendly and familiar to REUstudents since it is similar to LinkedIn and Instagram. The aim of the descriptions detailed by theREU participants were to provide evidence of learning and skill development. E-portfolios helpto develop transferable skills alongside supporting reflective learning, which makes it an idealassessment technique for the technical modules [13].The REU CohortThe 2019 Program consisted of nine participants from NCSU and the two neighboringcommunity college schools. Of the nine participants, 56% were from a two-year institute (n=5)and 44% of the participants were from a four-year institution (n=4). There were five participantsfrom two-year institutions who were also transferring to a