disconnect from the vacuum, but I just remembered that was part of the vacuum.”Indicating that at the time of the in-class activity, students did draw from their previousknowledge to formulate a mental model of the engineered system, but in reflection, the studentsrealize that their mental model is either incomplete or false. Here one can hope that studentsfollow the path of enrichment as described by Vosniadou [6] to append their mental model toinclude the remainder of the information not originally recognized as a part of the system.Most of the interviewees assumed that the mental model activity must be similar to theircoursework, as demonstrated in the following response. “I say that um with my engineering 101 class [Engineering
leadership identity that could be further tested using structural equationmodeling.Significant results were also observed among engineering fields and institutional characteristics.Students in computer engineering and electrical/electronics engineering scored significantly loweron the leadership construct than mechanical engineering students. Students who attendedinstitutions where women comprise a higher percentage of engineering students scored higher onthe leadership construct. It does make sense that some differences among engineering fields mightbe observed, reflecting cultural differences among engineering fields. In terms of the latter finding,it’s encouraging that attending a program with higher gender diversity might indirectly
, including the positionand rotation of all devices, measuring tools, pen-strokes and buttons pressed. This deep-loggingis expected to be increasingly useful as a means for students and instructors to reflect on pastperformance, and potentially to automatically analyze real-time problem-solving behavior. Itcan also be used as an efficient way to watch a recorded lecture from an arbitrary viewingperspective, as was proposed in [13]. The whiteboard diagrams and writing could also be savedas artifacts of the analysis.5. Pilot StudyThough presented above as a sequential process, in truth, the hardware, user interface, andapplication were developed together, largely in parallel from an initial idea that collaboration anddrawing were important for real
presentations in global engineering ed- ucation at several national conferences. Scott is an active member in the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) both locally and nationally, as well as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published
the time it took for the eggsto stop, thus decreasing the possibly damaging impact force. These topics were eventually moreformally assessed on a subsequent hour exam.In addition to responding to the activity showcased in Figure 2, the students were also asked torate their confidence levels in terms of the responses they had written to the question posed.Students were asked to rate their confidence levels on a scale from 1 – 5. A confidence levelrating of 1 reflected that the students had very little confidence in their response. A 5 ratingindicated that they were very confident in their response. Providing a confidence level ratingwas the second new twist to the free-writing activities.The next section will begin with an analysis showcasing
teaching effectiveness and student achievement. The TAP evaluation involves classroom observations, coaching, and feedback/reflection for professional growth. Kara has worked with 60+ student teachers in various subjects at the pre-K through 12th grade level, and conducted over 100 TAP classroom observations. Since the fall of 2016, Kara has been working with the JTFD Project, an NSF grant working to improve active learning in engineering education. She has completed 300 RTOP classroom observations in ASU engineering courses (civil, environmental, construction, chemical, aero/mechanical, materials, transporta- tion, and biomedical engineering). The RTOP or Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol, is a rubric designed
resolved by considering thatthe sampled data is no longer real-valued but instead complex-valued, with separate real andimaginary components. Hence, there are actually two data elements per sample, and with twicethe data, it is possible to obtain Hz of signal bandwidth while sampling at Hz. Note thatsince the time-based data is no longer real-valued, the resulting spectrum is no longer conjugatesymmetric such that the center frequency is not a center reflective point. The developer needsto be cognizant of this fact when processing signals, in particular, when isolating signals andapplying symmetric filters or converting the complex-valued signal into a real-valued (floating-point format).Signals used in SDR processing are normally complex in
-world engineering problems, the value of the toolis easily understood by students.The course design also tries to introduce students to some of the more cutting edge technologiesto allow them to feel that their efforts have current relevance. Students discuss data analysis andmanipulate data from real data sets such as water level monitoring from local streams or foodsafety data for baby food. They also build a reflective light sensor, gather data and use a simplemachine learning tool to make and train a roughness sensor shown in Figure 3. From thesemodest activities they are introduced to the fields of Artificial intelligence and Big Data.Figure 3: Example of a sensor built by students in Fundamentals of Computing. The sensorconsists of a
instruction, she spent twelve years teaching K-5 and enrichment at the elementary level. In 2010, Kara began teaching courses and supervising student teachers at ASU. Kara is TAP certified, an evaluation system designed to improve teaching effectiveness and student achievement. The TAP evaluation involves classroom observations, coaching, and feedback/reflection for professional growth. Kara has worked with 60+ student teachers in various subjects at the pre-K through 12th grade level, and conducted over 100 TAP classroom observations. Since the fall of 2016, Kara has been working with the JTFD Project, an NSF grant working to improve active learning in engineering education. She has completed 300 RTOP classroom
qualitativeinterview-based student perspectives from the fall 2018 semester are described in this work-in-progress paper. In conjunction with further qualitative data collection, a variety of survey anddirect assessment data from the entire two-semester course will be analyzed at the conclusion ofthe spring 2019 semester.Collecting qualitative data regarding student perspectives about working on interdisciplinaryteams allowed us to view students’ attitudes and self-reflections on their team experiences. Basedon the instructor’s own goals and literature-based reported gains [11] in interdisciplinaryteamwork, we were initially interested in how students perceived their team’s ability to beinnovative, identify customer needs, and receive rapid clinical feedback
Dictionary Wordscould not simply select the most common feedback (e.g. “good” or “great work”) because it didnot add meaningful information. Instead, we cut through the noise by selecting unique words andphrases that provided rich meaning but were used frequently enough to be matched. Table 2 showssome sample dictionary key words. Questions and answers were created from the selected wordsand phrases and grouped based on the category under which they best fit (Section 4.3). Every ques-tion has three answers with the exception of overall score, which has eight. Answers were chosento provide the maximum possible semantic distance between choices. For the third iteration of thereview algorithm, answers were chosen to reflect the question weight of 0
Manufacturingindustrial segments. For each industrial segment, two engineers were invited to engage in face-to-face qualitative interviews. Interview is one of the most important sources of evidences incase studies and is commonly found in this research design (Yin, 2017). At the time when theinterviews occurred, all participant engineers were working in senior leadership positions,ranging from managers to directors, and had between 15 and 34 years of professional experience.Purposeful and convenience sampling (Creswell, 2013) were utilized in the process of selectingthese engineers, since participants were identified from the alumni pool of Utah State University.In this study, interviews with practicing engineers were expected to reflect their
as part the observed PK team exchanges. Oscar’s parentsimmigrated to the US from the Mexican side of the border and Genesis spent her childhoodthere. Alicia, who was open about her daily border crossing experiences, also faced jokes aboutMexico and Alicia’s hometown during teamwork activities. In sum, it seems that team PK’smonoglossic language ideologies and behavior may have reflected a larger trend in perspectivesabout Mexico and Mexicans in circulation in the US at the time (2017-2018).Intersections of Gender and Ethnicity As the findings above show, the choice of language may have signaled to participants aparticular language ideology. However, ideologies about language intersected with ideologiesabout gender in ways that
developing newknowledge although this is possible” [9, p. 18]. The initial review of the articles consisted of ahigh-level examination of the articles in which the researcher noted the purpose, questions, andresults of each study. During this review, the first author reflected on what was read, noting keyfindings and making initial connections. The second review included an examination of themethodology, results, discussion, and any implications or limitations of the studies. During thesecond review of the data, themes common to the articles were extracted.ResultsThree themes emerged from the analysis of 11 articles collected in the systematized search. Thethemes describe the types of experiences women encounter in engineering industry. Most of
-university collaboration towards theimplementation of a professional development program for construction students improved theirinterviewing and soft skills, contributing to their professional identity development [22]. Well-designed informal learning programs will provide construction students with exposure to rolemodels, mentors, experiences, symbols and rituals within the architectural-engineering-construction (AEC) professional community to enhance their professional identity development.This occurs because these experiences encourage students’ reflections, interests, persistence, andand bring them to full participation in the construction professional community.BackgroundThrough a formal proposal submission by an HBCU for the development of a
knowledge process. The interpretation depends on a learner’s background knowledge andbeliefs. Every new piece of information is connected to existing knowledge after subjectiveinterpretation to fit their existing beliefs. Thus, new information can be connected appropriatelyand will reflect each person’s objective reality; it can also be connected to the incorrect beliefsand interpreted subjectively; or, it will be rejected (not retained), if it contradicts the learner’sbeliefs.11 Inductive teaching methodology is an active learning methodology which allows theinstructor to expose mistaken perceptions and beliefs of learners, and lead them to reframingtheir beliefs before new information is introduced and connected to the learner’s
for a medical device to be cleared or approved by the Food and Drug Administration. We believe all patients should receive high-quality medical devices, regardless of their ability to pay. All BME courses are patient-centered, which is atypical of medical device and medical device regulation courses. For example, when the Director teaches eighteen electrical and mechanical medical devices 3 that have saved numerous lives in her Medical Device Systems course, five requirements from applicable engineering standards are discussed for each medical device. As a former Vice President of Research in the medical device industry, she asks students to reflect if each requirement is
0 II Preparation Preparation for first use 2 III Mechanical Use Use w/o reflection 1 IV A Routine Reliable use with few changes 4 IV B Refinement Continual adaption & improvement 3 V Integration Collaboration w/ others to improve 3 VI Renewal Large improvement & reevaluation 0Teacher’s Creative AchievementsCreative achievement was found to be low with the sample of RET teachers in the first cohort.The second cohort included much more lifetime creative acheivement and recognition, with twoteachers scoring over ten on the instrument. While the overall
literature [12-14], the conceptof shortage of time repeated throughout the interviews. A participant reflects on the lack of timeissue: I would say that the largest cost has been our individual time, the faculty members' individual time. Because it takes some time to think about your course syllabus in a different way, thinking about ... Because in the curriculum plan, it shows you ... or there's indications of what courses might be prerequisites. But then we had to go back and think about what topics within that course are the most relevant.Another participant recounts what resources could make more time possible: I think that there's probably something as a carrot and a stick to get faculty together to do
, overall, students enjoyed the technology and would like to have itintegrated into their school curriculum. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) also integratecultural aspects into their applications which cover various educational topics 18 . The CornrowCurves CSDT uses the African American cultural braiding technique to allow students to practicegeometric skills by having students to create their own braids or mimic images supplied by theapplication. Translational geometric skills such as rotation, reflection and scaling are required tomaster intricate designs when creating cornrows. Ron Eglash’s team of researchers have craftedover 15 CSDTs that are tailored to multiple cultures including African American, African, NativeAmerican and Latino
the effectiveness of the applied/active learning activities and to see ifthey correlate with an increase in later success in Engineering courses, we analyzed studentperformance in the Applied Mechanics I class. The current prerequisite to the AppliedMechanics I class is Physics for Engineers I. Before the redesign of Physics curriculum theprerequisite was PHYS 215, Engineering Physics I, which was a traditional Physics class. It washeavily oriented towards theory and the lab components were rather disjointed with thetheoretical learning activities. We compared the Applied Mechanics I class final grade pointaverage (which reflects all assignment grades, including homework, quizzes, and a total of threeexams) as a measure of the performance
problem, reconstructing the main problem, and performingindependent and collaborative studies, students then revisit the original problem with a renewedapproach, new knowledge, and skills (Savery & Duffy, 1995; Barrows, 2002). The action ofreconnecting to the problem with a constructive approach encourages students to take ownershipof their short- and long-term learning goals. As part of life-long learning skills, students developself-learning habits to understand the need for recognizing real-life problems, allocating time todo independent research and reflect upon findings (Hmelo-Silver, 2004; Hoidn & Kärkkäinen,2014).3.0 ENVIRONMENTS FOR FOSTERING EFFECTIVE CRITICAL THINKINGThe Environments for Fostering Effective Critical Thinking, or
of classes (see the below section regarding s tudent and faculty reflections). These new courses will be offered s tarting in 2019, and will serve CIA minors and discipline specific majors as well: ART 376 The Art of Mixed Reality: Conceptual creation, storytelling, interface design in 3D virtual and augmented realms, visual styles and use of metaphors. A theorybased view of mixed reality (MR) worlds, including coding and software, the making of 3D assets, technical challenges and constraints. The students will develop, research, write and propose their own idea for a MR project. ART 470 Conceptual Art and Storyboarding for
study cited interest or skill in building or putting things togetheras reasons they could not become an engineer, suggesting that some students see engineering asfor builders or makers, but not for them. Other students said they could not become engineersbecause they were not creative or didn’t know how to ideate. Several students said they couldbecome engineers but would not because they planned to pursue another career of interest. It ispossible that all of these students might find engineering more appealing if they saw their ownskills and interests reflected in engineering. For example, we note that six girls and one boyplanned to become veterinarians; perhaps these students would be drawn toward engineering ifthey were aware of ways to
builders as an important experience they desired for themselves. For example,Batya, an 18 year old African-American girl who came to the program from a large city,explained that she took the time to reflect and think whether and how participation in theprogram would be beneficial to her. She described having conversations with her design teacherand several women in her family. Batya described that making and building was something thatshe was used to doing alongside her brothers: “Growing up I have all brothers. So being aroundgirls and doing stuff that I would normally do with boys, it, kind of I guess, not changes myperspective, but widens it. So, I might be more comfortable personally just working doing thingsthat I wouldn't normally do with
theproject was used, but the 8 outcomes below reflect accurately the consistent goals of the courseand form a basis for what features needed to be included in a project. 1. Students will develop problem statements and design criteria/requirements by evaluating a project scenario using design techniques (such as mind mapping or functional decomposition). 2. As a part of a design team, students will use the engineering design process to design, create, and evaluate a prototype that addresses realistic design constraints and requirements. 3. Students will self-assess, select, pursue, and demonstrate competency with a variety of tools, methods, and software as determined by their program. 4. Students will analyze
partial credit defined in the rubric. Moredetails about the rubric and the grading scheme are described in [8,9].Locating, classifying and correcting errors on exams can be a very important part of the learningprocess. This is referred to as reflection by cognitive scientists [2], and we prefer that studentsrather than graders glean this benefit. We hope that this process leads to higher accuracy andgrades in the future, all while developing an engineering mindset for checking work and locatingmistakes.Early and Frequent Assessment. In this new course design the timing and frequency ofassessment is important. It is recommended that students get two or three early assessmentsduring the first five weeks of the semester. If the assessments are left
force,and is committed to solving the imbalance of social development, while traditional means ofpoverty eradication cannot fundamentally solve the problem. It can be said that bothengineering ethics and inclusive innovation share the core goals of “changing the potential ofpeople's lives, solving social problems, and maintaining fairness and justice”. Secondly, reflecting the social fairness, building a community with a shared future formankind and fully stimulating the social innovative vitality are the philosophical startingpoints of engineering ethics and inclusive innovation. There are two principles need to beconsidered when we reflect the social fairness. The principles are as follows:(1) Equality ofopportunities. Under the condition
involved. It is my hope that this piece will provoke thoughtful comparisons and contrastsbetween the US and Canadian engineering education experiences; especially with regard to those engineeringeducators interested in the incorporation of “professional skills” into undergraduate engineering curriculum.Licensure and AccreditationThe engineer of 2020 is currently working her way through her degree. Having reached this much anticipatedmoment, we find ourselves, as engineering educators, obliged to reflect on how well we have lived up to thepromises of the “engineer of 2020.”12 In this paper I reflect on the work left unfinished and explore ways tothink about what comes next. I seek to look beyond this moment and to imagine how the engineer of 2050