; (iv) Student voice and choice; (v)Reflection; (vi) Critique and revision; and (vii) Public product. The public product in this instancewas this publication.The four graduate student members of this project came from two different institutions, three fromthe University of Massachusetts Lowell, majoring in Biomedical Engineering, ElectricalEngineering and Mechanical Engineering and one from the University of the District of Columbia,majoring in Mechanical Engineering. The group co-created the material for this research withfeedback from three faculty mentors in the two participating institutions. Faculty and studentinteraction is crucial in the co-creation process, and it has been found to provide many benefits onstudents’ educational
intentionalacts in how students understand empathy and the “meaning context” for which the relationshipbetween students and their subjects are made. The interdisciplinary or even transdisciplinaryapproach for developing and analyzing empathy embedded in engineering education provides alink to expand into other analysis techniques, such as discourse analysis.Others have certainly seen the benefits of discourse to think through empathy in education.Warren [20], for instance, reflects on the ways that adopting different, critical classroomdiscourses is important for creating and expressing a culturally sensitive and empatheticdisposition. Nolan [21] understands teacher discourses and dispositions as almost synonymous,explaining that teachers’ dispositions
in controlled motivation or amotivation.MethodsAutoethnographyAutoethnography [17] is a technique that uses self-reflection for recognition, exploration,appreciation and documentation of personal experiences. The autoethnographic approach wasapplied to elaborate and understand the results obtained from the research goals. Both authorsperformed research based on a structured approach and collected data. The following questionswere used to understand the results and answer the complexity of an effective learning strategy: • What was the background and context of your teaching experience? • What teaching and learning changes were implemented during the teaching experience? • What were the lessons learned from your teaching
to their reviewed writingaccording to a detailed rubric. After the peer review, each student has a chance to revise theirown report. By focusing on only part of the full-length report, the grading burden is also reduced. Direct and indirect assessments of students’ technical writing skills were carried out inthree semesters of the implementation of the ‘scaffold peer review’ approach in a junior levellaboratory course. Results of the assessments show significant improvement of the technicalwriting skills of students. Students’ reflection on about this approach and their perception abouttechnical writing in general also confirmed the positive impact of this approach. Although theimplementation is within the Engineering Physics program
]. Ultimately, designthinking exercises thinking skills and overall literacy, both during and after achieving learningoutcomes [12].5. CONCLUSIONSThis study first aims to classify engineering design thinking in curriculum design, analyse thecharacteristics and connotations of different introduction approaches, and establish a basicframework and methodology for the study of design thinking in the field of higher engineeringeducation. Finally, the study concludes with a detailed analysis of keywords and key coursetypes in design thinking in higher engineering education, laying the foundation for futureresearch. The backbone of existing research is reflected in the case studies, individualisedcurriculum design, the connotative purpose of the curriculum
and thinking styles, whereas higher analytical thinking scoresindicate more logical, rigid writing and thinking styles [9]. Lower clout scores indicate more of aself-focus, a “follower” not caring as much about relative social status, whereas higher cloutscores indicate a “leader” with more focus on dominating the others in a group [10]. While lowerauthenticity scores can reflect a measure of deception, they also indicate a prepared or sociallycautious response, whereas higher authenticity scores indicate more spontaneous, complex,honest, and unfiltered conversations [11], [12]. Lower emotional tone scores indicate a morenegative attitude, whereas higher emotional tone scores indicate a more positive outlook in thetext [13]. LIWC provides
Advisor to the leadership at Sisters in STEM. Sreyoshi frequently collaborates on several National Science Foundation projects in the engineering education realm, researching engineering career trajectories, student motivation, and learning. Sreyoshi has been recognized as a Fellow at the Academy for Teaching Excellence at Virginia Tech (VTGrATE) and a Fellow at the Global Perspectives Program (GPP) and was inducted to the Yale Bouchet Honor Society during her time at Virginia Tech. She has also been honored as an Engaged Ad- vocate in 2022 and an Emerging Leader in Technology (New ELiTE) in 2021 by the Society of Women Engineers. Views expressed in this paper are the author’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those
-identified as part of a racial or ethnic minority; the remainder identified as White.Each of these seven students participated in one 60–90-minute semi-structured interview [54-55].Interviews were designed to create a space for the participants to reflect on their K-12experiences and how those K-12 experiences influenced their decision to major in engineering.The first three student participants were interviewed in-person in a private office on theuniversity campus. The remaining four students were interviewed via Zoom. As a first step to theinterview, all participants were asked to develop a timeline of their formative experiencesleading to becoming an engineering major. Timelines were developed initially by students at thebeginning of the
learned”. The reflective component is critical for students toconsider how elements of their design worked or failed to meet their design expectations.Likewise, as a pedagogical instrument, the reflective component of the presentation offers thestudent a formative opportunity to “rethink” how any future instance of similar design practicemight be enhanced.PedagogyCorrect content with fitting assessments can only have the greatest impact if aligned withstrategic and purposeful pedagogical approaches. The THTR59700 course is at the core activelearning-oriented and engages technical knowledge across students' academic advancement,keeping the developmental growth of students in mind. In particular, the pedagogicalframeworks that most clearly relay
; for example, Chen et. al. states that “[s]tudents from all backgrounds may find theexperience [of an unexpectedly poor academic performance] threatening to their competence, butstudents from minority groups must also contend with anxiety that this performance ‘confirms’negative academic stereotypes attributed to their group memberships”[10].Often, these biases and stereotypes reflect an automatic judgment without an awareness ofindividuals’ specific abilities or experiences [11] [12]. Thus, the format of assessment, rather thanthe rigor, quality, or intended learning can have undue effect on educational outcomes. Forexample, IGEN performed a case study on a top-ranked physics program which noticed its“passage rate [for a qualifying exam] had
,sequential, mixed methods approach (N = 163) was used to assess the importance of industrymentor and teammate support using quantitative data analysis techniques followed by thematic(qualitative) analysis to explain those results.Likert-type items were analyzed using exploratory factor analyses and resulted in six constructs.Two constructs reflected student perceptions of their learning: engineering design and decision-making skills and adaptability skills. Two forms of support emerged from the factor analysis:industry mentor support and teammate support, and two control variables also emerged: designself-efficacy and preparedness. Support and control variables were then used as dependentvariables in regression models for the two learning outcomes
Engineering Student Teams) program is a GVT programestablished in Canada. It was designed to create a realistic work experience for engineeringstudents within a virtual global team project. They were involved in active experiments whilelearning and reflecting on a new experience with a learning concept known as global competencymodules (GCMs), which is a key component of GVT that supports virtual learning andcollaboration activities globally, including intercultural competence, decision making,communication, and relationship building. The InVEST study showed that intercultural activitiesprovide a unique lens to students to exhibit intercultural sensitivities to virtual global teamprojects and can facilitate better collaboration with students from
the course. This approach is rooted in the work on early intervention strategies.The idea is to focus on at-risk students. In this context, we do not consider the oral assessmentprimarily as being part of a summative assessment strategy. Instead, it is designed to be a touchpoint for a meaningful one-on-one interaction between a student and a member of theinstructional team. The value of early interventions for at-risk students is to increaseconnectedness to instructional staff and resources, and student engagement and self-efficacy. Theoral assessments were implemented explicitly with this focus. We also considered additionalbenefits, such as serving as formative assessments for the students to reflect on their level ofconceptual mastery and
involved framing of the BPC goals, assessingcurrent data systems for points of vulnerability and opportunity, a data request from the statesystems, data visualization, utilization and reflection.Data was drawn from reflective team journals; notes, collaborative materials and observationsmade during collaborative meetings; and the technical assistance requests made during theproject.When developing data infrastructure in support of BPC, diverse teams matter. Teams neededrepresentation from people who can access institutional or state data, understand the practicalcontext of the data to support interpretation, and help tie data to broader advocacy efforts.Ongoing team engagement, both within and across states, allowed the space to consider
consensus existing around certain categories. Negative identities tend to reflect elements that do not comply with societal expectations. Because of the multiple spaces where we develop identities, we have multiple social identities and they differ in their nature and strength [70]. An engineering
inclusion and equity are not. Some viewinclusion as a tool wielded by those in authority. Inclusion requires the group to include theindividual, rather than for the individual to take on that burden. An ideal DEI environmentencourages and hears authentic selves. People who want to improve DEI should engage inrepeated reflection to allow their ideas to evolve over time. Those at the top of the hierarchy,who are often not from minoritized groups, particularly need to reflect on their privileges andpositionalities in order to enact effective change [10].Engineers are still viewed by society as oblivious and antisocial, which lessens the appeal ofengineering to some. Others see engineering as heavily aligned with military and corporateinterests rather
, educators attemptingto address the Collingridge Dilemma by better training engineers and designers in ethics needto take a more comprehensive approach to ethics beyond one-off courses in professional ethicsor generic humanities ‘liberal arts’ curriculum requirements (i.e. ethics is nonfungible withlanguage, history, religion, etc.).Additionally, to account for value dynamism, an approach to ethics is needed that is not onlyfocused on legal standards, regulatory guidelines, or ethical checklists. These approaches of-ten grow stagnant if they are not updated regularly, uphold hegemonic societal values anddominant images of user groups (see [27] for additional examples), inhibit critical reflection,and settle for very narrow definitions and
third point of reference to reflect on and givea rich description of their experience in the US. Through qualitative analysis of these cases, wewill address the question: In what ways do Black students who are first- or second-generationimmigrants from Africa and have studied abroad leverage community cultural wealth inengineering in the US?We use Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) framework to highlight the strengths thesestudents leverage in engineering. CCW is an asset-based framework developed to highlight thestrengths of the students from Communities of Color. There are six assets used as a guiding lensto inform research in these communities: familial, social, aspirational, navigational, resistance,and linguistic capital that students
, and one preferred not to answer.They represented 19 states or US territories and 28 unique universities.Each liaison typically supported one high school, though some supported two or three. Afterobtaining IRB approval, the e4usa research team used a protocol for focus groups with universityliaisons to encourage reflection and discussion. Questions asked included, ● What, if any, prior existing relationships did you and/or your university have with your partner school(s) prior to your involvement with the e4usa course? ● What support resources provided by e4usa have been most helpful to you? In what ways have these resources been helpful? ● Do you have any suggestions for how to increase liaison participation?This
student populated surveyed consisted of 68% male and 32%female, of which 95% are Hispanic/Latino. The authors employed a qualitative research design,and the primary method of data collection was a self-developed survey instrument consisting of atotal five open-ended questions. The process for developing the survey items consisted ofquestions that sought to examine instructional and pedagogical strategies implemented to teachstudents rigorous engineering concepts based on students’ experiences in the course. As such, thequestions provided students the opportunity to delineate, reflect, and share valuable insight andexperiences that can help develop and refine effective and equitable engineering pedagogy.The data analysis consisted of an open
are organized into “guided problem sets”,each containing a series of exercises related to a single problem or skill. Guided problem sets arenot intended to replace written homeworks or exams, but rather to replicate the kind of interactiveleading questions that a student might be asked in a discussion/lab section or in office hours.The design goals for these guided problem sets reflect the goals for other components of the course,including lectures, labs, and grading rubrics. First, for each type of problem, auto-graded exercisesshould reinforce the solution process recommended in other parts of the course for that problemtype. Said differently, we want to proved the students with working examples, not just more workedexamples. A good example
, and career traineeship inaerospace-centric fields. The streamlined process of recruitment and project-based learning incollaboration with NASA and other aerospace professionals has shown to be effective in trainingthe first cohort of undergraduate and graduate students during the first year of programimplementation.During the summer of 2022, 6 NASA interns and 6 summer Research Experiences forUndergraduate (REU) students participated in the 10-week summer program with professionaldevelopment (PD) program featuring project management, career planning, RCR training,self-reflection, and technical communication. Because research shows that STEM students citepositive mentoring experiences as the most crucial factor in their retention, we developed
87 students in a class session are called upon to do other than simply watching, listening, and taking notes. Case-based teaching Asking students to analyze case studies of historical or 65 hypothetical situations that involve solving problems and/or making decisions. Collaborative Asking students to work together in small groups toward a 65 learning common goal. Concept tests Asking multiple-choice conceptual questions with distracters 50 (incorrect responses) that reflect common student misconceptions. Cooperative
professional woodworkers employed inthe machine shop will lend a hand for a special piece or two if extra skill is required. Thestudents create a jig and begin assembly after all pieces have been cut. Up to this point most ofthe work is done in one large group, but once boat assembly begins the students typically pick ateam and focus on just one hull. This fosters some friendly competition in class and tends to keepthe students focused and engaged as they strive to build the “better” boat. Figures 1 and 2 showthe students early in the assembly process, stitching the panels and frames of the boats.Homework in the class is a weekly reflection on the construction process. Students areintroduced to new tools and techniques during the week and are
ultimately help facilitate more effective interactions betweenacademia and community.One major limitation is evident within the body of outreach literature. The vast majority ofoutreach literature has historically addressed outreach in a top-down manner where academia isdelivering knowledge in a one-way exchange to recipients. Relatively recently, the research hasbeen reflecting the validity of the knowledge and expertise non-academic communities alreadyhold and that outreach should be a two-way exchange of knowledge. [8], [9]Additionally, most outreach studies focus on outcomes surrounding the recipients of outreachevents. [10] We aim to focus on the other side of outreach: those who participate in facilitatingthe outreach. This will act as a first
questions to establish the context from which the students were speaking. I approachedthese conversations with humility as I sought to learn with the participants as they are experts intheir own experience.LimitationsThe findings are reflective of the students who chose to participate in the study and thus self-selected to engage in an interview on ethics and responsibility that was conducted in English.The university at which the interviews took place is Dutch and English speaking, but mostBachelor’s programs are taught in Dutch, which was the native language of all of theparticipants.There is ongoing conversation around the inclusion of demographic questions in interviews [28],including where they should be placed and what effect they might have
generated a map of all the questions they had about theirproject. This tied Making Connections to Curiosity, helping them see that the 3C’s worktogether. At the end of the second semester, the students again generated concept maps for theirproject and combined them into one overall map for the team as well as reflecting on the changesfrom their initial map. Creating Value is also tied to an assignment done at the start of theproject as well as after it ended. In this case, teams filled out a stakeholder value matrix.In addition to the small assignments directly tied to one of the 3C’s, the TILT framework wasused for the major assignments (project proposal, proposal presentation, final report, finalpresentation) in the courses to explain how each of
exercise gave thestudents an opportunity to examine their current understanding of sustainable building practices. The groupnext traveled to the MorningStar solar home, a net-zero home built for the 2007 Solar Decathlon. A memberof the AE faculty who helped create the home for the competition guided the campers through the homeand explained the team’s considerations when designing the net-zone house. Campers learned about theenergy efficiency standards in passive house designs and how they can be implemented in today's buildingenvironments.Lighting The lighting design portion of the summer camp consisted of a short interactive lecture using visualdemonstrations with Top Hat to facilitate discussion, reflection and engagement with the
as memory, concentration, information processing and problem solving[26][27],functions that play a fundamental role when taking an exam.It has been shown that approximately 60% of students who have high levels of stress do notmeet the minimum score on exams, affecting the purpose of the exam [28],alternativemethods have been proposed to reduce stress levels, such as: multiple choice tests,increasing test time, open book tests, home tests. Some of these alternative evaluationmethods have benefits over traditional exams; since they enhance skills such as criticalthinking, reflection, and problem solving, instead of having to focus on the need tomemorize as in open book exams [17].In the case of open book exams, as well as theimplementation of
& Sellers, 2023) by which ideas can be shared and differences that fall outside thetraditional norms of engineering are reflected upon, discussed, and disrupted. Without anintentional breakdown of the communicated (and often, uncommunicated) power structures thatsystemically message exclusion to Black engineering students via its hidden curriculum (e.g.,Villanueva et al., 2020), the liminal spaces that continue to sustain systemic racism remain intact,restricting students’ agency in breaking down systemic barriers, and formation as engineeringprofessionals. For these barriers to break down, a use-inspired approach was deemed necessary by theauthors in where the target population, Black engineering Ph.D. students and their