students understandthe topic and how these courses influenced them to taking another course in the same field orto conduct research in this field. Notably, it has shown that junior project course sparksenthusiasm regarding this field in most students for them to voluntarily advance to conductadvanced research in following semesters or plan their career path in this field. This verifiesthe importance of and the effectiveness of hands-on experiments for nurturing potentialworkforce for VLSI fields. The recent development of technology shows enlarged scale ofcircuits and systems. In turn, both industry and academia are relying on design tools for designand for predicting behaviors of the systems. Whether for academia or industry, however, hands-on
to move from a planning phase to atesting phase quickly, boosting efficiency in the design cycle.A review of the scientific literature regarding heat transfer in cooking systems was insightful tounderstanding the dynamics of the cooking process. In evaluating the accuracy of our thermometer’stemperature prediction models, replication of or comparison to proven thermal models was essential to theproject’s success. Another consequence of reviewing literature was simply our familiarization with aunique application of mathematics that may guide our future interests in product engineering and design.Previous demonstrations in literature that model internal temperature of food systems often describedtemperature via a variation of the heat equation
4. RQ1: What cognitive processes are activated by designers using traditional/parametricdesign? We plan to systematically review a. traditional design methodologies, b. traditional designthinking, c. parametric design methodologies, and d. parametric design thinking, and highlighttrends to show how the processes and tools being used during the design process shape thecognitive process activated by designers. In the context of these insights, we will ask RQ2: Whatcognitive processes are activated by designers using generative design? We plan to systematicallyreview e. the methodologies available for generative design and consider how these methods/toolsshape the roles of humans in GD and the underlying cognitive processes. Finally, we will
that will be analyzed to determine the efficacy of the tool, and to develop new hints and strategies for helping students. This project plans to use our machine learning system to create, test, and deploy semi-automated hints in a timely manner. Keywords: Computer Science Education, Cybersecurity, Active Learning, Laboratory Expe-rience, Learning Environment, Experience Report, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning ©2024 American Society for Engineering Education 1IntroductionEDURange is an open source computer science education platform. It is a joint effort by studentsand faculty at multiple universities. Our primary goal is to develop educational tools
community) or if there were other activitiesthey would like to see happening. This survey has been conducted eight times.Field NotesS students are required to meet with the program coordinator twice each semester. The firstmeeting is a general check-in and guidance meeting while the second one serves as anothercheck-in and opportunity to plan for future coursework and activities. The content of thesemeetings generally involves general check-in and get-to-know questions, mental health check-in,faculty-advisor-relationship check-in, home-life check-in, coursework progress, Capstoneassignment progress, planning for the next semester, and student understanding of the nextsteps.Focus GroupAll students were asked to participate in a 40min-long focus
allowed them to participate in the academicand social events of the community. This interaction encouraged many of the students to join thehonors program when eligible for an enhanced academic experience.Success Advising: PTG scholars benefit from professional mentoring by PTG staff and peermentoring from upper-class PTG scholars and other senior honors students. These mentoringsessions focus on academic progress, campus engagement, and future planning, aiming to providea comprehensive support network. Staff professional mentors meet regularly 1-on-1 with thestudents to ensure they are on the right track academically and socially, and that they areemotionally healthy. Professional mentors also provide interventional advising as needed and
creating culturally relevant learningspaces, Indigenous learners are more motivated to engage in educational environments(Anthony-Stevens et al., 2022). When spaces lack that relevance, on the other hand, students andteachers may limit their efforts or altogether withdraw from participation (McKinley, 2018).During the Let’s Talk Code project, non-CS teachers attended two-phase workshops. Participantsfirst learned about coding basics through Code.org activities and then planned instructionallessons that incorporated coding within their non-CS courses and in their Indigenous-servingschools. We thus aim to share findings on the experiences of a subset of teachers and theirassociated students. In doing so we aim to answer the research question:What
content was covered in isolation from the engineeringprojects with one week of equitable and inclusive STEM environment content followed by aweek of technical experiences with the project-based engineering curriculum. In each subsequentyear, the leadership team adjusted the content planning to better reflect the need for equity workto be embedded in STEM pedagogy, and not as something separate. The most consistentcomponent of the CISTEME365 professional development model was the Action Research forEquity Project (AREP). Participants designed, implemented, and then presented their findingsfrom an action research project where they investigated the impact of implementing one or moretargeted equity and inclusion strategies in their STEM Clubs or
presented the results ofyear 1 work, the background and theoretical underpinning and motivation for the project, and ourresearch and assessment plan in 2023 [3]. This current paper reflects on our experience recruitingand piloting the learning community courses for the first time in Fall 2023 and Winter 2024. Wepresent the demographics of the first cohort in comparison to students in a non-linked version ofour Introduction to Engineering course (ENGR 101). We also describe a few examples ofinterdisciplinary curriculum and projects that we have developed and share some studentfeedback on their experience.Student Recruitment, Demographics, and RetentionWe took the following steps to recruit students for the new learning community. A new page onthe
Banquet each spring, allows all the Scholars to network with the coreSTEM team and our internal and external partners in an informal setting.In addition to academics, Scholars are encouraged to take up leadership positions in studentorganizations (American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Engineering Student Council(ESC) and National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)) and participate in student teams(Concrete Canoe, Steel Bridge, Robotics, etc.). We have had a field trip to the Coreslabprecasting yard and plan for more field trips this year. Scholars have also attended severalseminars organized within the College of Engineering and a mentoring session with some of ourExternal Partners under the auspices of the Civil Engineering Association of
is underway, with plans to expand to the College of Sciences.Outcomes will be measured using interviews, surveys, reflective writings, and peer teachingobservations. Educational Research This poster will highlight an IRB-approved qualitative study that is being conducted aspart of the grant project. The research is guided by the HSI servingness framework [7]. Theoverall purpose of the research is to understand the ways in which the university is serving itsSTEM students, using a mirror approach [13] to study and self-reflect on the institution, herebyfocusing on the organization as the main unit of analysis. Findings from this research willdirectly inform plans and actions to revise policies and
” navigation (Time consuming) 5 Walk within Bahen trying to find room 1000 (Time consuming)Survey Content and FindingsThe effectiveness and functionality of the CampNav Application was assessed through atargeted study involving 15 students. These students were unfamiliar with floor plan andconfiguration of the building. We asked them to use CampNav and Classfind[1] to locatetheir classrooms. And following their experience with the application, we conducted a surveyto gather their
runaway, high heat generation, oreven open flames. There are four mitigation strategies related to the storage of lithium batteries:1) physical containment, 2) control of the state of charge as part of the storage plan, 3) the use ofdetection equipment, and 4) storage temperature such as cold storage [15]. SAE J3235 alsoincludes different types of fire suppression and monitoring and detection technologies. TheAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) AIAA G-136-2022 is a guide tolithium battery safety for space applications, however, the author was not able to access the fulltext.Table 1. Examples of Maintenance and Operation Specific Directives from Standards Standard Directive ASTM F2840
project in a team at the USU campus.Depending on the selected research project, REU participants acquire competency indeveloping and justifying research ideas, formulating research hypotheses, implementing aresearch plan; analyzing collected data; communicating and disseminating research results;and developing strong technical, professional, communication, and team-working skills. EachREU participant was provided with an office cubicle in a graduate student room to facilitatedaily interactions between REU participants and the graduate student and faculty mentors.Each office cubicle was equipped with a desktop computer with Internet and printerconnections. In addition, all REU participants had access to a multi-purpose room where theycould discuss
trauma-informed frameworks of care in their approach to supporting graduate students?Preliminary Results from Phase 1Initial plans for Phase 1 were based on a sequential mixed-methods design, starting withcollecting data from a nationally representative sample of engineering GPDs and following withsemi-structured interviews of a subset of engineering GPDs selected as a result of their surveyresponses. To that end, we began adapting the Supporting Graduate Student Mental Health andWell-Being Survey instrument [1] to focus on both institutional and program-specific resources.In addition, we planned to augment the survey with open-ended questions about GPD roles andresponsibilities and how integrating frameworks of care could occur across
thecapability for explaining complex concepts or subjects, creation of code, fixing errors in existingcode, mathematical problem solving, the ideation and planning of laboratory experiences, amongothers [6]. On the other hand, the importance in engineering of creativity, critical thinking, andthe ability to solve complex problems, presents an opportunity to maximize the potential of thistool and explore new ways to use it.Impact on Assignments The emergence of ChatGPT introduces several profound implications for engineeringeducation, reshaping traditional teaching methods and prompting a reevaluation of assessmentstrategies. Traditional assignments that have always been done in engineering education, such asstandardized tests and multi-answer
scaleoutreach events. One such event was the first annual A+E Day for mechanical engineering (ME)students hosted for the first time in the fall of 2023 for the ME 110: Introduction to MechanicalEngineering class. The event was such a success that there are plans for a second A+E Day forME in the spring of 2024 semester. The “day” consisted of a three-hour lab block split into two90-minute sections that hosted 65 students across five modules – glassblowing, welding,blacksmithing (forging), casting, and glazing. The overarching theme of the kinesthetic moduleswas thermodynamics in materials processing, and the students all received a lecture on the subjectprior to attending lab. The verbal feedback from the students was positive, the ME students werealso
asked and answered, responses to feedback questions on the topic, and perceptions ofsuccess of the interaction. Teaching staff were explicitly asked whether students hadmisconceptions about what their “real” problem was.These data allow us to then plan targeted interviews and observations towards interactionsidentified by TAs and students as unsuccessful to develop a more complete view of office hourinteractions at this level.MyDigitalHand collects two main forms of data: automatically collected data related to the timingor context of the interaction, and after-interaction feedback data requested from both students andTAs on how a session went in their opinion. Automatically collected data consists of time stampsas well as student-provided
comprises the landing page, layeroverview page, and common elements like logo and navigation bar. The layer overview pagepresents four modules - the animation module, TCP layer, transport layer, and data link layer.The animation module features an interactive 3D model and an animation explanationsubpage. The other three modules contain the knowledge of each layer on the correspondingsubpages.3 MethodsSurvey Plan and EvaluationThe testing verifies the effectiveness of our design. The test plan includes internal testing andexternal testing. The internal testing focuses on the functionality of 3D animation andincorporates the 3D animation with the webpage. The external testing focuses on the userexperience of the website. Appendix C summarizes the
thisanalysis is presented here along with representative student comments, and discussed. The fulllist of survey responses and coding notes can be made available to any interested party.3. Results3.1 Material DevelopmentThe early planning stages of the project included rethinking the traditional textbook format, andopting instead to produce annotated and comprehensive slides designed to function as both studyaids for students and instructional tools for educators. The foundational concepts of engineeringeconomics were systematically organized into twelve distinct chapters, each represented by aPowerPoint slide deck. The size of these decks varied, spanning from 20 to 40 slides, with anaverage of 30 slides and a median of 29. Each deck included a title
partnership that could lead to more innovation. Socially-literate and engagedengineers can better translate community concerns into practical action. When trust is builtbetween practitioners and community stakeholders, it can lead to unexpected pathways forintellectual and practical exploration.Finally, a vector that we can plan for but not control fully is the implications on communities.However, we obviously see benefits as were articulated above – more culturally andcontextually-appropriate interventions, better system design – as well as the capacity to developmore asset-based approaches to work in communities. So often community engagement isframed as a way of repairing deficits. By leveraging community voice in full participation withall
?MethodsParticipant recruitment and context: As part of the external evaluation plan for the project, weinvited instructors of two associated large-scale (>2000 students per semester) required first-yearengineering courses to talk with us at two different points in the academic year (mid-year, andend-of-year) about their experiences of overseeing and improving student teaming in the courses.At this university, where engineering features prominently in the university’s identity andinternational reputation, students admitted to be undergraduates are not required to choose anundergraduate major as part of their application. Instead, they indicate interest in being admittedto the engineering college, and are administratively labeled as “first year engineering
influences from socializers mayinteract with students’ motivation to persist in STEM. Alternatively, future work couldexperiment with facilitating these interactions to improve motivation. Further empirical insightsthat unpack the dynamics of different socializer-interactions can build a deeper understanding ofthe impact of socializers to inform research and practice.References[1] J. P. Martin, D. R. Simmons, and S. L. Yu, “The Role of Social Capital in the Experiences of Hispanic Women Engineering Majors,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 227–243, 2013, doi: 10.1002/jee.20010.[2] National Science Foundation, “U.S. National Science Foundation 2022-2026 Strategic Plan,” 2022.[3] E. McGee and L. Bentley, “The equity ethic
have “an ability to function effectively on a team whose memberstogether provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals,plan tasks, and meet objectives.” Thus, all programs are clearly instructed to include, and assess,teamwork.While it is easy to put students in teams, it is much more difficult to assess individualperformance and ensure that all contribute as desired. The most common course to require teamsis senior design. ABET again mandates this course saying that the curriculum must contain “aculminating major engineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineeringstandards and multiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired inearlier course work [1].”As
produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. 3. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences. 4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives. 6. an ability to develop and conduct
stripping profiles.This will imply that there is a path from the bottom composition to the distillation composition viathe stages in the middle-section. Figure 4 shows interactive plots from this example.Summary and Future WorkWe are currently introducing these notebooks in our Process Design with Aspen Plus course. Basedon student feedback we will refine these notebooks and our code-base. We will require our studentsto use this code-base to design distillation columns before they start designing columns in AspenPlus. We plan to host these notebooks on a remote server so that it is accessible online. The codeis freely available for download via this Github link. The code base has been written such that itis easy to create new Jupyter notebooks. It
other two points were omitted from Table 1. The first was “Courses should becarefully planned,” and in their paper, this included subcategories of preparation of the syllabus,ordering textbooks, and communicating dates for exams. These items could be included in point2, about communications, and that is where we have aligned our faculty’s comments. In abroader sense, careful planning would also involve deciding on learning objectives, the depth inwhich to cover topics, deciding on the sequencing, determining effective pedagogy for each classand so on, but these probably are beyond ethical requirements. The other point not included inTable 1 was “Faculty members must not come to class intoxicated with alcohol or drugs.” Weare sure that this is
opportunities for student-led change by encouraging students to identify areas that need improvement and then conductresearch and develop plans for improvements. This involves defining specific and measurablegoals that align with students’ perspectives. The project underscores collaboration, fosteringco-creation, and student- led leadership, diverging from other top-down methods by elevatingstudents’ voices and promoting student agency by positioning students as leaders, rather thanrecipients, of institutional change projects.Against this backdrop, this paper asks: how might storytelling methods, that shift the role ofstudents from research participant to research collaborator, provide insight into students.experiences?Storytelling stands at the
incorporate input, process, output, and feedback. An example lesson plan alignedwith Georgia standard MS-ENGR-TS-3 is given . The lesson is found here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YdD24XDFRItQPckJDSn0L0l7OH6AiWL-aRIats-JA9U/editHer lessons depict the richness of the GauGAN’s NVIDIA Canvas where by it can be used tosketch and customize an image. The customizing aspect is very important because each studentcan highlight their input and make it visible to others. This aspect is critical in engineering andtechnology because visualization adds a sense of the design details. Students seem to benefit byinteractive environment where they can modify or manipulate variable to attain their interestedgoals. This is more engaging than only viewing
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