examsencouraged them to do more independent work throughout the semester. For research question 3,students reported that oral exams were very stressful prior to taking the first one but did not findsubsequent oral exams stressful.MOTIVATIONIt has been shown that higher perceived teacher support and school belonging is correlated withless school misconduct [1]. The same study also showed that higher peer attachment is alsoassociated with higher rates of school misconduct. The most common reason students cite forchoosing to commit academic misconduct is grade pressure [2]. However, with large andincreasing enrollments in introductory programming courses, standardized assessment will be therequired for the foreseeable future.One strategy that has been
specialized interests (Itoet al., 2009), but it has expanded to be used as a way to describe informal learning experiencesthat seek to support these interactions.High-school aged youth can participate in the weekend program as long a single semester to aslong as four years. Each year, new teenagers are recruited to participate when other teensgraduate. Each cohort of 25 interns includes five returning interns who lead a group of five newinterns. At the start of a 10-week long session, youth in teams are presented with a designchallenge: to imagine then create an engaging and educational visitor experience. Interns work inteams to communicate their ideas effectively with one another as they exchange information andconcepts, and engage in peer-to-peer
developing world. Dr. George has worked on projects in the Caribbean and in West Africa. Her projects combine her expertise in thermodynamics and heat transfer with the preservation of food, the cooling of space in hot dry climates, and empowering women’s cooperatives to better manage their natural resources.Ms. Erin Anne Kern, University of St. Thomas Erin is a Mechanical Engineering and French student at the University of St. Thomas in her junior year of study. She works in the Playful Learning Lab in the engineering department of her university and leads projects on using code to interpret music. Erin is interested in technical writing, finding ways to connect art and engineering, and sustainable engineering, and she
of reference is ignored. ASC is considered to be agood predictor of future achievements. We combine here elements of informal and formallearning with near peer-to-peer mentoring, and creative problem solving, in a multidisciplinaryenvironment, so ‘above-average’ achievers from our diverse community become aware ofalternative, challenging, and/or lucrative STEM careers (Lowell et al., 2009), all the while beingin a “small pond” which should positively impact the ASC. We put ‘above-average’ in quotes,since there is evidence, as noted below, that their Social Economy Status (SES) may haveartificially depressed their normative scores.Cultural diversity is both a reality and an opportunity. The US Census predicts that from nowthrough 2060, the
items from the survey. Due to page limitsin this work-in-progress study, we opted to include strategies used by women by engineering role(faculty, student, employer, etc.) in future work. Thus, we only present strategies womenengineers communicated in their writing when they were asked to expand upon a situational HCthey had to overcome in engineering.Demographics Out of the participants who shared a strategy (n = 154), the majority were 18-29-years-old (n = 121, 79%) (Table 1: Demographic characteristics of participants). Because weintentionally oversampled at some institutions, minoritized groups (n = 69, 45%) were morerepresented in this sample than is typical in engineering. Most of the participants did not considerthemselves to be
at Urbana- Champaign and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.Mr. Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Michael Alley is a professor of teaching for engineering communications at Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Writing (Springer, 2018) and The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer-Verlag, 2013). He is also founder of the popular websites Writing as an Engineer or Scientist (www.craftofscientificwriting.com) and the Assertion-Evidence Approach (www.assertion- evidence.com). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020Work In Progress (WIP): A Systematic Review of
students’support in performing preliminary research to generate experimentally validated data for theproposal. This approach produced a contagious excitement and ownership because manystudents in sections following earlier introductory sections knew what to expect; their peers fromearlier sections had shared the idea outside of class. Furthermore, hands-on interactionsembedded in PBL4 allowed students to “do something” to “learn about something,” instead ofthe usual classroom teaching with singular focus on “learn about something.” At the start of theMUAV lesson, students drew names out of a hat to choose between four possible roles: pilotingthe MUAV, timing MUAV flight to measure its ground speed over a set number of parkingspaces located behind the
expand on prior work where the students discussed whatUDL and learner-centeredness are and why these are essential additions to academia and learning(Wiitablake, Eanochs et al., 2022). As such, the lead author asked those who have participated orare currently participating in the grant as part of the Collaborative Design Team to reflect ontheir experiences with the project. The idea was to leave the task open for interpretation, thoughprompts were supplied to all students to get started with the writing. In addition, meetings wereset up as-needed, with students being able to choose whether or not they needed additionalguidance from the Research Assistant. These approaches allowed the students to take theinitiative in the writing process and
students in explicit stages of research and culminates in a paper orposter. Mentoring is charged to the course instructor and sometimes peers. Most CUREsimplementations involve lower-division students and last for one semester of less. On the otherhand, most UREs implementations typically involve upper-division students [5]. Spring 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUWe believe that in engineering technology undergraduate programs CUREs and UREs shouldcomplement each other. CUREs should be included across the curriculum and at different levels.Our view is to incorporate basic research skills in early semesters and keep cultivating andexpanding them as students move up. We believe that with this approach upper
grades 5-8, the Elementary Science Olympiad team, and the competitive high school robotics team, FTC. She contributed to international published papers, national proceedings, and is the process of writing several children’s books. This summer she will present a workshop on robotics for elementary school students.Mr. Erdogan Kaya, University of Nevada - Las Vegas Erdogan Kaya is a PhD student in science education at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is work- ing as a graduate assistant and teaching science methods courses. Prior to beginning the PhD program, he received his MS degree in computer science and engineering. He coached robotics teams and was awarded several grants that promote Science, Technology
subjects that might presenta struggle. Peer and professional tutors are available through the academic achievement centerto assist with technical subjects as well as writing and math. The college caters to workingadults by offering courses after typical working hours, on weekends and online. Facultymembers teaching online curriculum have undergone training and use universal course designtechniques (S. Burgstahler, 2006 16) to cater to all learning styles.Student advising starts prior to entering the program. Students meet with a designated Collegeand Career Navigator who is the first point of contact for each student participating in thiscertificate program. The College and Career Navigator assists with the application process andremains a point
design costs wereroutinely reaching the tens of millions of dollars 3. Given these constraints, how can we aseducators hope to provide a meaningful SoC design experience in a 10-week quarter?This paper attempts to answer that question by detailing a 1-quarter SoC design course I pilotedin Spring quarter 2015, CPE 439 Real Time Embedded Systems. As discussed in EnablingTechnology, I based the course around a new type of technology called a Programmable SoC(PSoC). PSoCs abstract away many of the low-level design decisions and development work thatgoes into a traditional SoC bring-up, allowing students to focus on developing custom IP,connecting it to the processor through an industry standard interconnect bus, and writing driversoftware to control
iREP-4-PACE program is to engage a cohortof undergraduates from plant/agriculture sciences, chemical sciences, and engineering disciplinesin the research, education of engineering chemicals from plants of high commercial and medicinalvalue. The program will educate the undergraduates in engineering environment friendlychemicals. The year-long program will train students in seeking/learning the interdisciplinaryknowledge, techniques of molecular synthesis of plant-based chemicals and in doing so, it willtrain the students in broadly applicable research methods such as literature review, instrumenttraining, basic statistical analysis, and proposal writing. The article describes the design of theiREP-4-PACE program and activities conducted to
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Research-Course Design,” CBE—Life Sci. Educ., vol. 14, no. 4, p. ar37, Dec. 2015, doi: 10.1187/cbe.15-03-0073.[32] A. B. Inoue, Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado, 2019. doi: 10.37514/PER-B.2019.0216.0.Appendix[after peer review we plan to include the syllabus developed for the M-CURE course, but it is full ofauthor identity information so has been removed for now]
teaches graduate-level engineering communication courses. Her research involves engineering commu- nication, technical communication pedagogy, and knowledge transfer. She has published and presented widely including work in the Journal of Engineering Education, the Journal of STEM Education: Innova- tions and Research, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Technical Communication and Technical Communication Quarterly. Julie has a PhD in Rhetoric and Professional Communication from New Mexico State University, an MA in English with Technical Writing Emphasis from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a BA in English from Elon University.Dr
Electromagnetic Induction Problems. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 13(1), 215.Borrego, M., Foster, M. J., & Froyd, J. E. (2014). Systematic Literature Reviews in Engineering Education and Other Developing Interdisciplinary Fields. Journal of Engineering Education, 103(1), 45-76. doi:10.1002/jee.20038Ferretti, R. P., MacArthur, C. A., & Dowdy, N. S. (2000). The effects of an elaborated goal on the persuasive writing of students with learning disabilities and their normally achieving peers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 92(4), 694.Gainsburg, J., Fox, J., & Solan, L. M. (2016). Argumentation and decision making in professional practice. Theory Into Practice, 55(4
designed problems and activities. However, in the summer of 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the program had to be transitioned into a virtual research experience. In this study, we reflecton our experiences as supervising faculty, and the results of pre- and post-experience surveys completedby four groups of undergraduate researchers. In contrast to previous years’ REUs, team interactions werenot possible in the virtual environment, and activities were mainly training programs. Students were ableto work with previously collected real data and write code. The participants’ final presentations weretechnically better than those in the previous two years. Regarding the development of so-called soft skills,student engagement, team working skills
college3.Improving post-secondary student retention and success has been the subject of many studies.For example, Kuh’s multi-phased study identified high-impact practices including first-yearseminars and experiences, common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing-intensive courses, collaborative assignments and projects, undergraduate research,diversity/global learning, service learning/community-based learning, internships, and capstonecourses and projects.4 Another study published by the California State University Chancellor'sOffice shows that "Participation in high-impact practices has been shown to improve bothlearning and persistence for all students, but especially for the historically underserved."5 Thisstudy also
programs such as developing an active learning environment, increasing the use of technology in the classroom, and the use of peer mentors to better relate the challenges freshman students face in understanding classroom material.4) Strategies focused on retaining student interest in their chosen discipline. These strategies include incorporating modules into freshman courses that involve the solving of practical engineering problems, and demonstrating the application of classroom concepts to real-world problems.5) Strategies focused on incorporating more hands-on components into the classroom.Table 1 presents all the retention techniques that have been summarized in this paper. The tablecomprises the reference number corresponding to
course he describes where students are gradedon their individual outcomes. These concepts have been expanded through the rubric used in thecourse described here, which is presented in Appendix A. All technical writing and oralpresentation assignments in the course were ranked using this scale.In addition to this rubric, students provided written critiques for peers during oral presentations,which contributed to student outcome (g). This form, shown in Appendix B, tasked students toindicate what they thought were positive during the presentation (I like…) and then what theythought could be improved (I wish…). This appendix shows a sample critique from a student,with all names and identifying information redacted. Through the course requirement
environmental science. Field trips are established in each of these courses withthe now peer leaders demonstrating field collection methods and aiding students to create their own research projectsand posters for the course. The peer leaders may continue to work for the program all the way through to theirgraduation. As of the writing of this paper, four students from the first year of the grant have graduated and twohave moved on to graduate school at this university and two have entered their careers in environmental science andengineering.Other activities that the former summer bridge student interns carry out during the spring and fall semesters includeresearch in the university labs, internships in other research programs, more community outreach
and reflection upon the incident. While the primary intent of the CIAin the context of the IGERT program was to build cultural competence through reflective criticalthinking, the tool supported the building of trust, respect and understanding among the group,which is often the result of peer-supported CISD. [15]Background Information on Sustainability CIACIA-Sustainability Framework: Within the IGERT program, this technique was adopted in orderto help the students understand the complex, intersectional challenges associated with theelectronics life cycle during their trip abroad to India. The structure of the CIA that was utilizedfor this can be found in the Supplemental Information to this document. They include: Section1) Account of the
the terms equity and equality. The students then engage in adata interpretation activity—we give them a packet of graphs that show representation in STEMalong various dimensions (race, gender, LGBTQ+ identification), and ask them to first considerwhat information they can gather from the graph and then what it means. They work together insmall groups on this activity, and then report out to the whole class about interesting things theydiscovered. Next, we conduct a notecard activity where every student writes an answer to thequestion, “(Why) does representation in STEM matter?” on a 3x5 index card. They trade cardstwice with random peers such that they end up with an anonymous student’s notecard. We thenuse this to facilitate a class-wide
responsibility to generate and disseminate knowledge with rigor and integrity, but also a responsibility to: o conduct peer review with the highest ethical standards, o diligently protect proprietary information and intellectual property from inappropriate disclosure, o and treat students and colleagues fairly and with respect.” [14]While the natural environment may be of concern to individual engineering researchers,these homocentric codes of engineering ethics are still rooted in the mechanistic thinkingof the 17th century, where reference to non-human animals is largely omitted. There areethical guidelines for research involving animals, but they may warrant reconsideration,given new developments and debates over
the help of PASCO kits, whichwere all signs of better engagement. More difficult criteria and competition mechanism areneeded in the future to bring more challenges to the project and better distinguish the winningteam. Second, the technical report and poster presentation (both the poster and elevator pitch)were in better quality because (1) the report writing and poster design were broken into multiplerevision cycle with feedback from instructor and peer teams given before the final version due,(2) in-class writing practice improved the report quality, and (3) elevator pitch practice sessionhelped students to prepare for the poster presentation. 80% of students reported themultidisciplinary judge panel during the Poster Expo had a positive
. Interestingly, “Projects”elicited mixed responses, featuring both the most and least favored aspects. Other best-likeaspects emerged around the Engineering Design Process, and Flexibility and Creativity, whilethe least-liked themes included Assignment and Writing, and Timeframe.Table 2. Top Three Best and Least liked Aspects of the Courses. Best Liked Aspects Count Freq (%) Least Liked Aspects Count Freq (%) Projects 207 70 Assignment and Writing 108 36 Engineering Design Process 156 39 Projects 73 24 Flexibility and Creativity 100 25 Timeframe 22 7Concerning Projects, students highlighted
heightened risk ofreceiving disconfirming messages regarding whether they belong in academic spaces.In response to these inequities in students’ teamwork experiences and to create a more inclusiveclassroom, in a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) approach [13], we began collectingstudent information throughout a team-based design project to better understand potentiallyfraught experiences (e.g., to what extent did you feel your ideas were heard and taken seriouslyin the team meeting?) as well as relating that information to more typical peer and self-assessments.Recognizing that power is unevenly distributed within teams, and wanting to forward a moresocially just classroom, we added critical readings highlighting ways that power and
strategies, and positive habits of mind.Laurel Whisler, Clemson University Laurel Whisler is Assistant Director and Coordinator of Course Support Programs in Clemson Univer- sity’s Westmoreland Academic Success Program. In this capacity, she provides vision and direction for the Tutoring and Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) programs and provides support to the General Engineer- ing Learning Community. She is also co-developer of Entangled Learning, a framework of rigorously- documented, self-directed collaborative learning. She has an M.A. in Music from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.L.S. from Indiana University.Dr. Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University Dr. Elizabeth Stephan is the Director of Academics
understanding of the assigned reading (Smith et al., 2009; Millerand Tanner, 2015) and, importantly, to expose remaining misconceptions. A pivotal part of thisformative assessment is the follow-up peer instruction associated with any quiz questions forwhich there is not a group consensus on the correct answer (Tanner and Allen, 2004). Thispursuant discussion not only helps students who are struggling, but also allows students whobetter comprehend the material to cement their understanding by explaining the concepts to theirpeers (Cortright et al., 2005; Tanner, 2009b).Group activities, termed Explorations in our course, emphasize enduring understanding overfactual knowledge and process over details. Explorations (lasting one to two hours) use real