be flexible in order to accommodate countless opportunitiesfor independent study. In this instance, the students formed a small group and defined theproblem as earning a professional credential while still an undergraduate student, an achievementrather uncommon for their peers. They studied the fundamentals involved through mentorshipdiscussions with their advisor and reading about the history of ISI, the development of theEnvision rating system, and requirements for earning the ENV SP credential. They learned that,to become an ENV SP, they would need to take seven online training modules and achieve 75%or better on a 75-question, multiple-choice, open book, online exam [24]. They organized anapproach by backwards planning to meet course
systems, including SHR 1.1 programming, maintenance, and integration with other sys- tems Students should have proficiency in programming lan- guages commonly used in automation systems, such as SHR 1.1.1 Programming Skills Python, C++, or Java. They should be able to write, debug, and optimize code. Students should have an understanding of the hardware used in automation systems, including
student being unable to identify inequitable or culturally incongruent educational systems that are causing personal hardship but still 'fighting back' or being oppositional because of the hardship they are facing. When a student ismotivated by social justice and not critiquing social oppression(conformistresistance), they may act to address the hardships they and their peers face but continue to be unable to name or address the systems causing those hardships. This could look like a student creating study groups for struggling peersb ut not addressing the curriculum and classroom culture that causes their peers to struggle. In contrast, a student performingnot being motivatedby social justice but critiquing
increasing numbers and “a clear need andcall for critical global competencies, they remain lacking in college graduates and the workforce[11].” At the same time, study abroad programs are trending shorter. At the writing of this paper,64.9 % of students enroll in study abroad programs shorter than 8 weeks in duration [10].Historically, an entire semester abroad had been the convention for decades. This invites thequestion of whether and how practitioners can develop these requisite global competencies asshorter sojourns abroad undergird the paradigm.The extent to which participants acquire global competency during study abroad continues toelude researchers despite their best efforts. Assessment is a multidimensional challenge,complicated by limited
interests [12]. Thissignificantly impedes the sense of belonging of non-traditional learners and those whosepreferred communication mode is other than reading and writing. The purpose of this project wasto support engineering instructors in redesigning their courses to support and engage a broaderrange of neurological and cognitive functioning within students to support and promoteparticipation of non-traditional thinkers and problem solvers in the engineering fields. Thepurpose of this study was to investigate instructors’ conceptions of neurodiversity to provideinsight on the effects of the professional development on instructors. Additionally, it follows thatinstructors' views about neurodiversity affect the ways in which they support (or do not
author supported the firstauthor in writing and editing this paper.Results All pre-camp and post-camp survey items were compared between Camps #1 and #2 to see ifthere were any items with statistically significant differences. In the comparison of pre-surveysbetween the Nomination Camp and Self-Selection Camp, six items showed a statisticallysignificant difference change: 1. Engineers mainly work on machines and computers. (p = .012) 2. Engineers mainly work on things that have nothing to do with me. (p = .012) 3. More time should be spent on hands-on projects in science or technology activities in school. (p = .000) 4. I would like to (or already do) belong to a science or technology activities club. (p = .009) 5. How
example “I think that previously I was veryafraid of coding and it seemed like kind of a large part of engineering and now that I understandsome of the basics I'm less intimidated and more enthusiastic.” One student proposed a clearconnection between skills, reward and persistence, writing, “I am more enthusiastic becausethrough these engineering courses I have become a better problem solver and I want to keepexperiencing that feeling throughout my career.”Student data indicated that the semantics instructors use in the classroom are vitally important inaiding students to identify the new skills they are learning and why they are learning them,whether teamwork, algorithmic thinking or problem solving. This was most evident in our datawith respect
andexperiment with communication algorithms through the writing of software. A diverse set ofSDR software frameworks and hardware platforms exists, many of which have been employed ineducational pursuits to individual advantage and disadvantage [5].The range of learning activities in which SDRs have been deployed mirrors the breadth of PBL.This has included use in guided laboratories for wireless communication subjects [6] up to largecapstone or senior design projects with a significant digital communications component [7]. Alsocommon are extra-curricular design competitions which aim to promote research or educationalobjectives by having teams from different institutions compete to design the best performingsystem for a common problem statement
to fulfillment of the necessary KSAs for responsible charge.Employers know there are gaps, especially in “professional skills” (communication, writing,ethical responsibilities, etc.) and wonder what to do about it. The CEBOK3 identifies each ofthese skills and defines the attributes that are gained through mentored experience and life-longself-development to fulfill them. What is needed is a program that translates the content of thePG, ME, and SD outcomes into a format that employers can understand and use to develop theirearly-career civil engineers. ASCE is currently developing such a program (described later in thispaper)These concerns are further exacerbated by shifts in workplace culture as workers demand moreflexible schedules and
student in this course walk away stronger in many aspects than they were before.The peer discussions and informative feedback from the instructor were significant in facilitatingthe writing of a complete program in a creative way to solve the problems.The proposed project focused more on class-wide collaboration. This helped students work withone another and be exposed to outside thoughts and ideas they may not have otherwise. As aresult, students are more engaged in the topic at hand, rather than just sitting there listening to alecture. Moreover, integrating the arts, and bio-inspired design improves student engagement..What improves student engagement, as far as engineering students, is opening the class up to amore collaborative environment
Developing software applications (coding) Testing prototypes to failure Writing sensor/actuator interface firmware Taking risks with radical design ideas Designing/building integrated mechatronic systems identifying critical questions Building critical systems prototypesTo provide additional context, the course descriptions for Global Design and Smart ProductDesign are listed below in Table 4, along with word cloud visualizations showing wordfrequency. The Humanitarian Engineering course and Statics course are shared as well. Table 4: Course Descriptions (from [University] academic course catalog, with Word Clouds of word frequency Mechanical
phones were notallowed, and they also had to be turned off and inside the backpack. The rules wereexplained before the exam began. The time for the exam was divided into three parts. In thefirst part, the students took the exam for 45 minutes; during this time, the students can readall the questions and exercises and complete the number of questions they want and in theorder they want, like a traditional exam. After these 45 minutes, they had a 15-minute breakin another room where they had water, juice, coffee, cookies, and chips, take a break fromthe exam, and they could talk about anything (including the exam), but they could not bringanything from the exam room nor write anything; during the 15 minute coffee break thestudents were monitored
both groupsMethodsStudents were approached during a recitation period for AERO 201 and presented with a briefintroduction to both the NUA2NCED Laboratory and the experiment itself. The recitation periodoccurred from 9:10 AM to 10:00 AM in a lecture hall seating approximately 40 students. Afterthe introduction, a total of 37 students opted to participate in the experiment.The experiment as administered is divided into three segments: a pre-survey, two exam-formatproblems, and a post-survey. All materials were accessed online; participants were provided aseries of internet links to direct them to each component of the study. Each participant wasprovided a single sheet of paper on which to write any scratch work necessary to complete
Findings Collection analysis research September‐October August‐early 2021 October‐November September 2021 2021 Data collection will Statistical analysis of continue throughout survey data spring and into fall Survey sent to all 2022 Write up
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the thought policing.This participant seemed in conflict with the ideas that were presented during thevignette-based HC survey and expressed frustration. He thinks that women do not gointo engineering only because they choose not to, which is related to the first conceptionthat systemic discrimination (a form of HC) is not an issue, yet the experiences andstatistics of marginalized individuals in engineering argue otherwise. The participantdoes not account for gender stereotypes and influences that impact women’s choices togo into engineering, such as the influence of family, peer groups, and societal/culturalgender stereotypes on the attraction of adolescent boys to STEM-related subjects andemphasis on their performance [48]. The participant
, University of Virginia Professional Skills and Safety are my main pedagogical interests. I use the Chemical Engineering labora- tory to implement safety training to improve safety culture, and to adapt assessment methods to enhance development of students’ professional skills. I am an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia and I hold a B.Sc. (University of Saskatchewan) and Ph.D. in Chemical En- gineering (Queen’s University). Complimenting my pedagogical research is an interest in bioprocess engineering, environmental engineering, environmental risk management, and I have authored more than 40 peer reviewed publications in these fields. I’m also active in developing workforce
my classes. I can easily reach out to most people.”Values, Attitudes, and BeliefsThe focus group participants clearly expressed the attitude that CEE has played an enduring rolein the chemical engineering community, both historically and currently, with one participantdescribing CEE as a “needed place." Several participants expressed the value that CEE was auseful source of ideas for lessons, courses, and programs that faculty members can use ininstruction and share with colleagues. They also expressed the belief that the journal, as a peer-reviewed resource for content that is specific to the discipline, is used in practice, citing that, “itserves a really important role as both a research and a practice journal.” In addition, they
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– 2018, but“chunked” into two to three - 20-minute lectures that were easier for students to digest.To ensure that students watched and retained some of the information from the video lectures,they were required to submit short electronic journal entries through the Learning ManagementSystem (LMS) before each class. This form of reflection is called “write to learn” and can helpstudents improve their ability to retrieve information, make connections between new and oldmaterial, and explain concepts in their own words. [14] These journal entries were used toassign the “preparation grade” (see Table 1), and the questions asked by students in their journalentries formed the basis of a short (10 – 15 minute) review of the lecture material at
active learning in which students aregiven an outline of the day's lecture, with certain aspects of the lecture blanked out. Students areexpected to fill out the missing sections as the lecture is delivered, in order to help facilitate theirattentiveness. Next, the students were given handouts containing 15-20 FE-type multiple choicequestions on the topic that was being covered in class that week. The remainder of the lectureand discussion sessions were spent solving the problems.The format used in class to solve the FE-like problems was mainly Think-Pair-Share. Inapplying the Think-Pair-Share method, students were given 30-seconds to read the problem,then 1 minute to think and discuss solutions to the problem with their peers. This was
did not belong, and what theyhoped to see changed in engineering programming for youth.Data Analysis and Positionality The purpose of this paper is to explore the particularly critical discussions of engineeringand engineering experiences with youth, to better inform the design of equitable engineering. Todo so, I engaged in multiple rounds of data analyses of all interview data, examining patterns incodes and colligating data to arrive at a set of assertions, which I then submitted to axial andselective coding processes to develop categories [47], [48]. I undertook this process of movingiteratively from data points to holistic claims and back again repeatedly, using key linkagecharts, category charting, and theoretical memo writing
, several teachers have indicated that they will pursue additionalstudies through graduate education or future RET programs.ConfidenceGenerally, teachers gained confidence in a range of areas except for “confidence writing aresearch paper,” in which cohort 2021 entered with more confidence but left gaining the leastconfidence.Teaching STEMIn their self-assessed teaching skills at the start of RET experience, the 2021 cohort gained moreconfidence in teaching STEM than cohort 2020. Most RETs were interested in the researchtopics and learned a lot.MentorshipThe 2021 RETs reported strong mentorship. They also documented that mentors wereapproachable, had professional integrity, and were supportive and encouraging.Potential impact on teachingAll 2021
involved testimony, biography, photos, and datarelated to the Holocaust, compiled into a “story” that the students followed over multiple weeks.The narrative structure was used because students tend to relate better to personal stories andinformation over traditional lectures – they are drawn to the lives and cultures of others to whichthey can relate [15]. Topics on genocide and crimes against humanity were chosen because these“hard histories” contain relevant STEM topics, but they are not the main focus. Rationale forusing the Holocaust as a focal point in an engineering classroom can be summed up by EricKatz, who writes that we should “begin with this fact: engineers, architects, and othertechnological professionals designed the genocidal death
coding scheme was used to identify the metacognitive strategies students engage inwhile writing their reflections. Ku and Ho [17] used theoretical ideals from Flavell [6] to developa coding scheme to categorize university students’ verbalizations about their thinking during aseries of decision-making tasks into three dimensions (planning, monitoring, and evaluating)with low and high strategy levels for each dimension. Planning comments related to identifyingprocedures, strategies, and resources students would use to develop their understanding.Monitoring comments showed a reference to understanding and pointing out certain ideas thataided a student’s comprehension or ideas were difficult to process. Evaluating commentsincluded evaluating and
. Baechle is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Indian River State College where he teaches courses in programming and data mining, as well as serving on various workgroups and projects related to data analytics. In addition to his academic duties, Dr. Baechle is an active consultant in the healthcare analytics industry where he specializes in the field of natural language processing. Previous to IRSC, he was employed as a software developer for almost 10 years in several private and governmental organizations writing utilities and financial software.Christopher John Akelian (Cuesta College)Kathleen Alfano Kathleen Alfano has a Ph.D. from UCLA in Higher Education with a cognate in
positions [8].In addition to exposing students to careers, the iDRAW program also seeks to provide moreimmediate pathways into post-secondary education. This is also achieved through guest speakersand field trips, as well as through one-on-one assistance with college advising, applications, andfinancial aid. The confidence the students develop through their success in college-level dualenrollment coursework can help students feel more prepared to pursue post-secondaryeducational opportunities. The program also employs current college students as teachingassistants in the dual enrollment courses, providing near-peer role models to help the students tosee themselves in the next stage of their academic path.Some students have a natural interest in
barriers? 3) What has hada large impact? 4) What are the biggest challenges faced now and previously? 5) What are theoutcomes? The panelists described programs and initiatives they have led in their own careers tobroaden participation of underrepresented persons at every level of higher education(undergraduate and graduate student levels, faculty success, grant writing). They sharedsuccesses and pitfalls and highlighted high impact efforts that are replicable and sustainable.Breakouts provided opportunities to address issues raised by this outstanding panel, tobrainstorm collaborative ideas across institutions.On day 2, panel presentations from day 1 were reviewed and participants divided into breakoutgroups to identify 1-2 promising best
methods which were the same for all the projects. Studentsmet with Dr. Howard to learn about literature reviews, citation management software, projectstatements, abstract writing, preparing a portfolio, etc.. Students also learned about EM anddelved into what curiosity, connections, and creating value meant in the research environment.Undergraduate training in EML amounted to approximately 8 hours over the semester in additionto the instruction students received in their technical research.The program offered mentoring for the faculty as well as for the undergraduates. For the faculty,our communications were online only. Four mini-briefings were offered for faculty. Each mini-briefing started with an email recap of the concept and its application
laborwas the order of the day. Education was not necessary to earn a living, it was merely a luxury forthe elites and the rich.Education 2.0 - Originated from the need to read and write and was developed in the model ofIndustry 2.0, with emphasis on production orientation such as repeatability, uniformity,efficiency, and mass production.Education 3.0 - Did not constitute much of a paradigm shift. The advent of automation meantthat the education system now could do the same thing they were doing but faster and moreefficiently.Education 4.0 - Accelerated speed of technological change, impact of COVID-19 on instructionand learning, domination of legacy systems and outdated business models with all financialburden on the backs of students.Source: Das