; interactions with city construction-in-progress teams(engineers, managers) and city leaders (councilman) and staff.Friday: Field trip to university’s aviation and flight control center adjacent to the suburbanairport. Final presentations and check out.Each day, students had classroom time to work in small teams and individually. The aim of theseclassroom sessions was to help participants reflect on their transportation related experiences andinteractions with experts to further develop and articulate their understanding of localtransportation and construction industry and related careers (West, 2018). All meals, breakfast,lunch, and dinner, and snacks were provided.Data Collection and MethodsA pre-post survey was developed (NAE, 2008, 2013) to elicit
misunderstanding and misinterpretation that is detrimental to the learning process. It is difficult for any person to unlearn old information once viewed as accurate, impacting their learning ability within that concept [12].The knowledge types of students possess often reflected in their goal orientation and motivationwithin a classroom space. Svinicki [13] talked about how students' goal orientation andmotivation influence their learning, either positive or negative. Svinicki speaks of two types ofstudents, Performance Oriented and Mastery Oriented. Performance-Oriented is focused ongrade achievement and course requirements over true content competency and understanding.These students are often less willing to take on challenges to
standards for educational programs is a professionalresponsibility of the academic community, as is establishing accreditation criteria to ensure qualityis sustained—enter ABET. This paper summarizes the major efforts that led to Associate’s degreeprograms in cybersecurity, along with the motivation to create the first ABET Associate’s Cyberse-curity Program Criteria. It discusses the process to develop these cybersecurity criteria, describesthe current criteria, and presents the current status of the effort. In essence, this process reflects thematuration of the cybersecurity discipline.1 IntroductionCybersecurity professionals at all levels of preparation are in high demand, with predictions thatthere will continue to be a global shortage in
T-test.Project Manager Reflections Upperclassmen Project Managers were given a reflection assignment followingcompletion of the course. Assignment prompts were “What were your group dynamics like”,“What would you do differently if you were to be a PM again”, “What advice do you have for afuture PM starting out in your role”, and “What do you think your strengths and weaknesses areas a PM?”. Project managers noted the importance of communication, organization, timemanagement, and the ability to relate to team members. Most project managers struggled withthe balance of being a friend versus a Project Manager. Some project managers felt they instilledthe wrong dynamic by being too friendly. Students were able to realize the importance
them. Insome instances, the lack of engagement might be because students are not aware of the HIEP theycan participate in during their program. Acknowledgments This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underGrant No. 1927218. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.REFERENCES[1] Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(2), 191–215.[2] French, B. F., Immekus, J. C., & Oakes, W. C. (2005). An Examination of Indicators of Engineering
focused on faculty development and providing faculty with information, theselessons learned are more from our reflections as a Center. • “There is a thing as too many workshops” at least from the facilitator perspective. In addition to the Summer Workshop Series featured here, we also moved our New Faculty Workshop to Zoom in July and were facilitating multiple workshops per week. For our small Center (3 faculty members working on both this series as well as the New Faculty Workshop), the large number of workshops led to stress and burnout for our Center members. • Overall, the workshops were well received by the faculty; multiple faculty members reached out before the end of the summer or fall to
goldmining (ASGM); b) collaborative activities among students; c) sessions of a creative capacitybuilding (CCB) workshop; and d) group and individual reflections on what was learned everyday. The faculty and graduate students presentations included definitions on how to view ASGMas a socio-technical system, problem definition as the core pillar of global socio-technicalcompetency, mercury use in ASGM, risk communication in ASGM, interactions between largescale mining and ASGM, listening and trust building, and environmental and public healthdimensions of ASGM. The collaborative activities included re-evaluating design proposals ofsolutions that the 2020 cohort inherited from the 2019 cohort to three ASGM problem areas:back health of miners carrying
other teachers as they taught in ways designed to foreground students’ funds ofknowledge and home languages. For over one year, they participated in ongoing professionaldevelopment in which they reflected on student work or transcripts of their own teaching anddiscussed and identified ways for better supporting Latinx students who were receiving ESLservices. MethodsFor the trimester reported in this comparative case study, we observed each teacher daily for aminimum of four instructional units. These instructional units were each comprised of oneengineering design challenge and ranged from a few days to a few months in duration. Thisstudy also draws from four interviews per teacher, which were designed
alternate pathway, i.e.roadmap, for STEM Ph.D. students that is scalable and reflective of the evolving employmentlandscape and workforce needs. The pedagogical implications of these innovations will beinvestigated via original pedagogical research hypotheses and application of a detailed evaluationand assessment component. Expected outcomes include the development of strategies to broadenparticipation of female and veteran students in doctoral programs at our university, and thepropagation of successful strategies to other universities.The PAtENT Program’s Innovative RoadmapThe PAtENT program will ensure students do not enroll in additional coursework, but insteadoffer an alternative pathway toward the doctoral degree. The PAtENT program thus
-reported increased learning interest and self-motivation forevery participant. The project’s objectives were articulated to the students through aseries of assigned questions related to the rotation of the designed physical model.Students had to make assumptions, complete analytical calculations, and discuss therelationship(s) between their theoretical values and experiential data.Project reports plus pre- and post- project surveys were collected from each group afterthree-weeks’ work. In the report and the surveys, students’ comments reflected theirviews about this project-based learning. The corresponding learning outcome results havebeen assessed, as well.Students at Purdue University Kokomo campus are commuters. The typical
%). This was worthwhile to note, as such activities requiring management ofa moderately sized set of data from a mechanical test could be an essential skill for a well-trainedmaterials engineer or researcher. Reflection by the authors on other courses within the programhas noted a shift towards students being provided with heavily-processed data to analyze in theirlab reports and they are rarely asked to collect and process moderately sized raw data sets.3.2 Teaching Team ObservationsThroughout this study, informal, virtual drop-in office hours were made available to the students2-3 times each week, in addition to the formal tutorial sessions covering each module activity.These informal sessions provided an opportunity for the authors to make some
systematically captured and incorporated in thecourse development.Samples of mind-map, design document, mock session effectiveness rubrics, content andworkbook review rubrics which are some of the important deliverables in the coursedevelopment of Introduction to Engineering, which reflect the course refinement, arediscussed in the following sections. The data captured and used in reporting the study aresecondary in nature and are taken from publications of the institute available with openaccess. Also, students participating in giving feedback were given clear indications ofpurpose of the feedback and were also given the option not to participate.4.1. Mind mapAs part of course development the working team consisting of faculty members and
regarding the project is shown in Table III below. Table III. Project Evaluation Regarding The Learning Objectives O1. Master the fundamental concepts of OO design and syntax of (four) UML models The classes are identified with correct attributes, and operations and defined in correct UML notations. The class model was developed with correct relations. All states were properly defined and captured the key observable transitions. Sequence of functions were identified in the proper use cases and reflected in the related scenarios. Control flow was modeled with correct activities and execution sequences are captured in the activity diagram. O2. Understand and implement the modeling skills with the instructions. Each element as well as
organizations across campus: “People use it as a springboard more often thannot. Most of our mentors are a part of multiple clubs, both within engineering and outside… I’malso a part of clubs for chemical engineering, so I’m also in leadership in one of our science peerorganizations on campus that’s not associated with the College of Engineering.” Another benefit most often noted by the peer mentors was improved communicationskills. Amber reflected: “Public speaking and putting presentations together and learning how topresent myself in a meeting or interview, over the phone, I guess, just presenting in front of agroup of people and to speak loudly and be well versed.” Paul discussed how this benefit wasmore than a matter of being an
acombination of Likert scale questions and open-ended essay questions with a focus oncontrasting student opinion between online and in-person course delivery. Throughout thesurvey, students are asked to self-reflect about topics such as understanding of concepts, courserigor and level of retention in an online environment as compared to a traditional in-person class.The questionnaire data has provided the team with a valuable combination of quantitative andqualitative data with which to draw meaningful conclusions. One of the major takeaways fromthis research is that although students are highly adaptable and can adjust to the remote aspectsof a flex model, their perceived ability to engage with their professor and peers in an onlineenvironment is
.[11] R. M. Stwalley III, "Definition, mission, and revitalization of cooperative education programs," in ASEE 2006 Chicago Proceedings, 2006.[12] G. Bolton, "Narrative writing: reflective enquiry into professional practice," Educational Action Research 14, no. 2, pp. 203-218, 2006.[13] M. Haddara and H. Skanes, "A reflection on cooperative education: from experience to experiential learning," Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education 8, no. 1, pp. 67-76, 2007.[14] R. M. Stwalley III, "Professional career skills in senior capstone design," in ASEE Capstone Conference - Columbus, Washington, DC, 2016.[15] R. M. Stwalley III, "Assessing improvement and professional career skill in senior capstone design through course
Reality course taught in the Computer Science Department at the same university, oras part of independent research projects involving electrical and computer engineering students.This reflects the strong educational impact of this project, as it allows students to contribute to theeducational experiences of their peers. During phase IV, the VR experiences are played bydifferent types of audiences that fit the player type. The team collects feedback and, if needed,implements changes.The pilot VR Lab, introduced as an additional instructional tool for the E&M course during Fall2019 and Spring 2020, engaged over 100 students in the program, where in addition to the regularlectures, students attended one hour per week in the E&M VR lab
. To assist in keeping students engaged and avoiding passive lecture settings, a variety ofactive learning education theories are possible fits for FYS. A possible learning theory relevantFYS is Kolb’s model [8]. Specifically for FYS, Kolb's concrete experience and activeexperimentation stages are best suited [9]. Keeping within Kolb’s theory, and to promote activelecturing, engaging activities were implemented from various active learning domains. Theseactivities took the form of brainstorming, case study reflections, scavenger hunts, think-pairshares, etc. We also wish to maintain and build a sense of community within the students thatleads to social networking development [10]. Within this social knowledge network, as soon asstudents begin
customers (engineering students and faculty in ourcase). Through this process, as educators understand more about what the customers needed, theeducators revise the design. In our application of this process, we interviewed more than 100 engineering students(most in their third or fourth year) who had not seen the films—about one-third of theinterviewed engineering students were women. The rationale behind selecting the students whohad not seen the films (our prototype) was to discover what the students reflected on as beingimportant in learning to write as engineers. In particular, we asked students about the following: 1. Biggest challenges faced when called upon to write an engineering report 2. Biggest surprises about engineering
Research Workforce Working Grouprequired IDPs for their postdoctoral researchers (Austin) [8] and the National ScienceFoundation included the IDP as one of the tools in their career development website [9]. As wecan see, both NSF and NIH, as well as many universities, have embraced the IDP as a keycomponent for enhancing STEM graduate and postdoctoral programs. In fact, in studies ofreflection as pedagogy the IDP is considered a self-reflection tool. Researchers such as McMillanand Hearn have reported that it enhances self-motivation and achievement [10].Taking all these factors into consideration, and the fact that there is not a similar tool as ‘myIDP’for undergraduates, we developed an instrument customized to fit the goals of bachelor's
team of researchers at a Southwest Hispanic-Serving Land-GrantUniversity embarked on an National Science Foundation-funded study to provide workshops forfirst year engineering students to introduce them to metacognitive awareness learning strategiesthat have the potential to help their study skills, and in turn, their academic performance. Toassess if these strategies were utilized and if they were helpful for students, we collected pre- andpost-intervention surveys and reflective writing journals. The survey items came from themetacognitive awareness inventory (MAI) [1] to measure pre- and post-knowledge andregulation of cognition. These surveys were administered to the introductory level engineeringclasses at the beginning and end of their
University of Illinois, a Professor ofAgricultural Engineering at Makerere University in Uganda, and a Professor of Social Work atNational Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.The series concluded with an informal session that allowed participants to reflect on previousconversations with the group of panelists (see below). Total engagement among the roundtableswas 79 non-panel participants, and the ratio of faculty to students was roughly 50 percent ofeach. Additional faculty and students could view the forum sessions afterward by linking tovideos of each roundtable off the Working Group’s website.The Working Group honed the topics of the forum by developing a set of three questions forpanelist discussion that would be posed in each roundtable. The goal was
prompted to describe the circumstances, engineer's reaction, resourcesthe engineer used, and outcome for each incident. They are also asked to reflect on how theirorganization hires for and rewards adaptability.Interviews are being conducted with 15-20 engineering managers at four companies in thesouthwestern U.S. based on guidelines related to reaching code saturation in qualitative research[62] [63]. Engineering managers of different experience levels and demographic characteristicshave been recruited at each company with the help of an internal project liaison, most typically, asenior engineering manager themselves. Each company has different approaches to externalresearch, with some requiring the signing of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs
cognitive load, andstudent preparation for online self-directed learning among engineering students at The Citadel atkey points during the pandemic. Students reflected on their face-to-face and emergency onlineengineering courses using the NASA Task Load Index (TLX), a rigorously-developed instrumentfor measuring perceived workload. The following questions were addressed:1. How did perceived workload and sources of workload associated with face-to-face engineering courses vary across academic classes prior to the pandemic?2. To what extent did the mid-semester shift to an online modality impact perceived workload and sources of workload for each academic class?3. Which academic classes, if any, may have been disproportionately impacted by the
of an Arduino-based modular structure and possible use of self-configuration. This paper includes the detailedsketch of the development efforts, engineering students’ reflections on the development project,design and delivery of the high school workshop including high school student feedback, andpossible future college level curricular designs for modular industrial robotics for industrial,mechanical, and manufacturing engineering programs. The paper is concluded with future workconcepts including possible kinematics and dynamics modeling of these industrial robotconfigurations through simulation tools such as DELMIA or MapleSIM, along with use ofmachine learning for self-configuration.BackgroundThe modular robot is a fairly new type
understanding seismicload combinations. 3.29 4.00Rate your confidence in calculating stress within ashear wall. 3.71 3.50Rate your confidence in calculating forces withinmembers of a braced frame. 4.29 4.50Rate your confidence in modeling structuralsystems in RISA. 3.86 4.00* Ratings are on a 5-point scale, with 5 being the highest**Survey results have been parsed to reflect third-year student data separately, as the intent goingforward is to position this class as a third year course
to a lack of specific dates being given on all resumes.We purposefully split up the involvement and leadership in organizations due to the severedifference in impact when comparing leadership positions vs. non-leadership positions as well asaffiliation of the clubs to engineering disciplines.IV. New Model: BME CompetencyThe second methodology uses modified versions of the AAES engineering competency model toquantify overall resume quality. This was done based on how each entry reflects competency ineach of the three primary career paths graduating biomedical engineers follow. The competencyscoring methodology is a six-tiered system which is comprised of the following tiers: Tier 1:personal effectiveness, Tier 2: Academic Competencies, Tier 3
Objectives for CSM 4523 o CLO.1 Apply fundamental construction scheduling methods. (SLO.5, SLO.10) o CLO.2 Create resource and cost loaded schedules using industry standard software. (SLO.5, SLO.10) o CLO.3 Create schedule updates to reflect project conditions & progress using industry standard software. (SLO.5, SLO.10) o CLO.4 Analyze construction specifications related to planning and scheduling. (SLO.7) • ACCE Student Learning Objectives for CSM 4523 o SLO.5 Create construction project schedules. o SLO.7 Analyze construction documents for planning and management of construction processes. o SLO.10 Apply electronic-based
commentary from the first-year students. Their perspective will provemore valuable as they progress through their collegiate career and evaluate how the foundationlaid in their first three semesters has benefited them. From this study’s perspective, they hadno/limited knowledge of the previous design. • “Though I spent much of the semester trying to understand what learning to code had to do with engineering, it came together at the end when I had to write a reflection about how my teams worked and what I have learned. My coding fear had been replaced with confidence” [6]. • “Though I learned to code during high school computer science, this was a new environment considering the lab challenge
statistically significant(p=0.056). This increase is unlikely to do with the “dynamics in one week” curriculum, andprobably reflects gains made by students over the course of the entire semester. However, onecould argue that the fact that this change only verges on significance suggests students were in arelatively strong position after only the first week.The student open-ended comments (see Appendix A) complement the quantitative results. Mostof the second week comments focus on details of classroom management/topical coverage orindicate that the pace of instruction seemed fast (definitely true!). However, a few commentsindicate that students appreciated the instructional approach even early on. One student wrote: Honestly, the first week