for their equivalent degree programs where theprogramme aims are equivalent to program educational objectives (equivalent to ABET Criterion2) and the intended learning outcomes are similar to student outcomes (equivalent to ABETCriterion 3)6.There are several major differences in the courses required for graduation at the University of Page 26.153.3Glasgow and other universities in the United Kingdom as compared to in the United States. First,there are no required liberal arts courses. Lectures may touch on issues related to proper formatsand writing styles for laboratory report and technical paper, examples of such documents maybe
Methods MAutoethn nographyAutoethn nography (a combination n of autobiog graphy and eethnography) is a qualitaative approacch toresearch and writing that “seeks to t describe anda systemattically analyyze personal experience iin [10]order to understand u cultural c expeerience” . In this papeer we use auttoethnographhic techniquues tosituate Michael’s M periences as a freshman engineering student in thhe context oof engineerinng expprogramss that, we arg gue, are in tu urn nested within w and coonnected
means of feedback, but activities inside the classroom werestructured in a very passive learning format. Most class meetings consisted of a PowerPointbased lecture, perhaps including an example problem that was pre-solved and included in thelecture slides. Students were assigned homework problems and if they ran into difficulty theywould have to seek out help from the instructor outside of class or from their peers. In the end,the instructor felt that students were learning the material because the course was well organizedand the lecture notes were thorough, but that with more engagement inside the classroomstudents could learn more efficiently and more effectively for the long term.At the time the instructor considered changing the course to
theUniversity of Nottingham.70 CourseMarker improved grades after the parameters for assignmentswere tweaked in response to early results. From 1998–2001 and 1999–2002 respectively, theoverall percentage of students passing first- and second-level programming rose. The authors donot provide specific numbers, but they clearly correlate student improvement to CourseMarkerwhen they write, “The ratio of student passes to failures is very high, and has improved with theevolution of CourseMarker and the support provided by the system.”In 2005, Kumar showed learning improvement with an automated tutor aimed at testing staticand dynamic scoping concepts in a programming languages course.71 The author’s experimentconsisted of a pre-test and post-test given
question proved to be the leastcomprehensive, with 6 respondents (21%) indicating “other”. Two of these write-in options maybe added to the revised survey before national dissemination (do not assess; in-class discussions).No individuals in this survey were using an individual standardized assessment method; the lackof use of these instruments may point to the fact that many instructors may not be aware of theseinstruments, perhaps due to lack of formal training in ethics instruction. Alternatively, it mayreflect the difficulty of creating standardized instruments that measure students’ knowledgeand/or attitudes toward macroethical issues and/or a lack of faculty confidence in suchinstruments. These results related to assessment merit a deeper
global accreditation community has affirmedthe importance of educational breadth, in multiple agreements including the Washington Accord,the Sydney Accord, and the Dublin Accord.14 Engineering historian Bruce Seely has noted thecyclical nature of these calls. 15An ABET-funded study on the impact of EC 2000 by Lisa Lattuca and colleagues at the Centerfor the Study of Higher Education at Penn State16 found that 75% of the approximately 150chairs surveyed reported “some” or “significant” increases in emphasis on communication,teamwork, use of modern engineering tools, technical writing, lifelong learning, and engineeringdesign, without significantly impacting technical outcomes. More than half the faculty reportedsimilar gains in these areas in
better understanding of their early career work. Drawing from the PEARS data,Brunhaver4 showed that engineering graduates who were non-engineering focused four yearsafter earning their degree were different from their engineering focused peers in terms of certainundergraduate experiences (e.g., they were less likely to have participated in an internship or co-op) and level of technical interests. Moreover, while women and men graduates in this samplewere not different in terms of their current position (engineering or non-engineering), they weredifferent in terms of future plans. Women tended to have lower technical self-efficacy andinterests than did men, which helped to explain why they were more non-engineering focused intheir
understanding thetheory and concepts guiding their research projects, t(12) = 2.856, p = .014 (see Table 1). In theinterviews, participants reported acquiring or improving several research skills includingmanaging data (70%; “You know, you have your own data and learning how to correlate andanalyze your own data is definitely something I got from this”), time management (46%),creating a poster (54%; “I learned a lot about…creating posters…about how to compile a posterand how…to analyze data”), writing scientific papers (54%), and oral presentations (46%).Table 1. Self-Evaluation of Research Skills: Test of Hypothesis 1b How would you rate yourself on the Mpre (SD) Mpost (SD) following skills? Ask pertinent insightful questions about
Paper ID #31031Equity, Inclusion and Ethics: Adapting a Mentoring Curriculum to Developan Ethics Workshop for Engineering StudentsDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Services at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational
(e.g., Paul, Parker).Theme 1: From expressing individual abilities to serving a broader purposeAs demonstrated in their reflective writings, the students shifted in their understandings of theiridentities as engineers. At the beginning of the term, students described their choice to major inan engineering degree field as an expression of their individual abilities or interests. Forexample, Hector initially reflected how he had entered engineering based on a childhood wherehe would “take things apart and put them back together.” His interest in working directly withtechnology was further galvanized through participation in a series of high school roboticscourses. Generally, several other students identified with Hector’s trajectory. Many
pursuing a B.S. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineer- ing at Oklahoma State University. She has been associated with the OSU Industrial Assessment Center since 2019. Her areas of interest include manufacturing, energy systems, and renewable energy.Dr. Michael L McCombs, Oklahoma State University Dr. Michael L. McCombs Dr. McCombs is Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Division of Engineering Technology at Oklahoma State University (OSU). He earned a PhD in technical rhetoric at OSU in 2018 and an MA degree in technical writing at Minnesota State University in 2005. Dr. McCombs is the assistant director of the OSU Industrial Assessment Center (IAC), where he has worked in various positions since
as students work withtheir teachers and peers 2. When engaged in active learning, students make gains not only incontent knowledge, but in process skills and attitudes towards science. When teachers use acurriculum based on active learning, their behaviors also become more student centered, withless focus on worksheets and lectures, and more focus on lab work and inquiry 3. In general,active learning reaches students who possess a wide variety of learning styles, much more sothan traditional teaching and learning 4.In contrast to traditional lecture-style classrooms, active learning takes place when teachersengage students such that that they think about and perform meaningful activities. This can be assimple as pausing several times during
understanding how college students’ achievement goalsrelate to such outcomes as academic self-regulation, affect, task value, interest, self-efficacy,learning, and achievement. In my preliminary review of the STEM literature I found littleattention given to the topic of goal theory. Although there are various models, in general, most educational psychologist distinguishtwo major types of achievement goals39,42,45,82,83,85; performance goals and learning goals.Students with performance goals strive for competence in order to demonstrate their abilities toothers. A performance goal orientation frequently involves normatively based standards andstudents may appear competitive as they strive to outperform their peers. In contrast, studentswho adopt
Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia Carlson is a professor of rhetoric in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a long-time advocate of writing in engineering education. Carlson has been a National Research Council Senior Fellow for the U. S. Air Forcer, as well as having had several research fellowships with NASA (Langley and Goddard) and the Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground. She has also been a research fellow at NASA’s Classroom of the Future located in Wheeling, WVA. Her primary research area – computer-aided tools to enhance writing in engineering education – has been funded through two NSF grants
nanotechnology measurements.9,16Encouraging first-year science students to get involved in independent research opportunitieswith faculty mentors, to participate in science learning communities outside the classroom(specifically Nano Club), and to attend an one-hour introduction to nanoscience seminar arethree techniques that an eastern state university has found useful in engaging their studentsthrough the appealing topic of nanotechnology.15 At an innovative eastern university, there is acourse consisting of primarily computer and electrical engineering students that challengesstudents to write a research paper about a nanoscale device of their choice.17 Kim, Kamoua, andPacelli (2005) indicate that this technique is a starting point and propose
to think about the different variations that go behind the application. This project got the students thinking on a higher level than they were used too. The activities that were developed in a way for the students to be interacting among their peers as well as with undergraduate students got them out of their comfort zone. The project involved a simulation application that controlled environmental parameters. The students were much more involved in developing such an application that had processing information that would affect other people. The students were also concerned for the long term effect of decisions made. The teachers were impressed by the connections made between science, math, and technology
Page 23.342.7approach. 6During the community service learning process, students were required to learn the strategiesfor creative problem solving, and participate in self-evaluation surveys and mini-tests toevaluate their knowledge on the introduced strategies and their performance in applying theknowledge. They were also required to write community service project journals to record theirthinking and reflection on the process of identifying problems, obtaining relevant knowledge,and creating innovative solutions. Finally, they were required to present and report theirprojects. At the end of the community service, they were required to submit
Interdisciplinary Design Skills1 INTRODUCTIONAt the Sunapee State University engineering majors are similar to those at other schools around thenation. Most students choose a specific major in an area of interest to them and their future career plans.Within the engineering major, these students follow a specific track of courses with little variation in theform of electives taken during the third and fourth years. With the only common courses between majorsbeing rooted in math, physics, chemistry, writing and some social sciences, it is unsurprising to find thatgraduates from different programs develop and exhibit a completely different set of technical skills. Theissue in this model surfaces when those graduates leave the university to begin their
Page 25.532.3introducing context in introductory courses,5 alternative instructional strategies,6 summerprograms,7,8 and academic support services such as tutoring, Academic Excellence Workshops(AEWs), and peer mentoring.9 Among the specific programs developed through SOLES are theMath Jam and the Summer Engineering Institute. Math Jam is a two-week intensive summermathematics program designed to improve students’ preparation for college-level math courses.The Summer Engineering Institute (SEI), a two-week residential program held on campus at SanFrancisco State University, aims to introduce students to the engineering educational system andthe engineering profession, recruit students into an engineering field, increase student awarenessof
successful experiencesand reflections in their creative problem solving processes.Implementation Procedures The students were provided with a list of question prompts after they start their creativeproblem solving in their PBSL project. These question prompts correspond to the process modeland strategies, which are categorized into procedural, elaborative, and reflective prompts.Students were required to write down what question prompts were helpful for them to learnrelevant knowledge and may help develop their innovative solutions. To help students focusattention to some important aspects of the problem solving, participants received questionprompts regularly as reminding through e-mails setups in online software platform Blackboardbesides the
the solution (or parts of the solution) to the problem. FeasibilityAnalysis (FEAS): Assessing and passing judgment on a possible or planned solution to theproblem. Evaluation (EVAL): Comparing and contrasting two (or more) solutions to theproblem on a particular dimension (or set of dimensions) such as strength or cost. Decision(DEC): Selecting one idea or solution to the problem (or parts of the problem) from among thoseconsidered. Communication (COM): The participants’ communicating elements of the designin writing, or with oral reports, to parties such as contractors and the community. Other: None ofthe above codes apply. See table 1. Page
presentations employing a more detailed scoring rubricto produce a composite score with input from the module instructor, the collective plenary andother module instructors, and students. Other activities in the discipline modules includedinvited speakers, student/industry panels, and lab tours to introduce the students to the disciplinemajor. A peer assessment was required for each team, and several of the module instructors usedCATME TeamMaker as the assessment tool at the end of the module rotation.Outcomes and AssessmentIn addition to the College’s general freshman survey, students taking the first-year engineeringprojects course are separately given a pre- and post- surveys. Students taking the pilotintroduction to engineering course were given
just the lab handout that isn‟t well-written” (Anna, Junior).Similarly, in the fourth year, Beth is frustrated with equipment not working properly and havingto spend her laboratory time fixing it: “I‟m taking [specific class] this semester and, we had like tons of equipment that had major issues. And, our teacher doesn‟t really know what‟s going on. He‟s just kinda‟ like, “Oh, I don‟t know,” like, “try and screw around with it. Fix it.” And, we‟re like, “Great. That‟s wonderful.” And like, it would be okay if then like you could write a report that was like, “Oh yeah, we were just like trying to fix our thing.” And that would be okay. But, you can‟t, you still have to have like a report, written data, and like everything. You know
meeting at the end of every semester. Also, program outcome assessmentdata is collected and evaluated by an outcome coordinator, and presented to all faculty membersat an annual assessment workshop.9 At these meetings, the faculty determines whether eachoutcome is being adequately and efficiently assessed. Often, these meetings lead to adjustmentsin the assessment plan.The creation of new courses and the writing of course level objectives to achieve specific ABEToutcomes can be a challenging task, especially for first year program courses where there is nouniversal agreement of the content and topics. Felder and Brent10 describe the effort required tocreate a course to achieve specified outcomes in three domains as: planning (identifying
application. The IEP usuallysupplies a template for the faculty member abroad to use for the letter of invitation. DAAD grantapplications are highly competitive, and students who can demonstrate “contact to a researchlab” by supplying an invitation letter, have more competitive applications, especially when theycan show how their research abroad adds value to what they have done at home because the lababroad has specialized equipment, or concentrates in an area that complements their work in thehome lab, and thus bridges both research experiences.Some students may be open to doing research but need help with the selection or placement. Inthat case the IEP director writes on the students’ behalf to contacts who have hosted studentspreviously or
.‚ Lecture delivery and testing modes that encourage self-learning and practical problem solving, rather than memorizing notes and solving boilerplate problems.‚ The existence of modern laboratories and workshops and their maintenance.‚ Faculty members and assistants that are in touch with their peers in reputable universities abroad so as to learn about modern trends in curricula development, delivery technologies, student evaluation methodologies and needed supplementary material.‚ Student per class densities that allow meaningful interaction between students and faculty members, as well as actually performing practical experiments rather than watching technicians perform experiments.‚ The present outdated structure of
interested parties even if those parties are spread across the entire world. With suchcapabilities, it is not difficult to see that the Internet can transform the way that collaborativeefforts are conducted. Organizations that make proper use of the new medium can experienceorders-of-magnitude improvements in efficiency and capabilities just like a baby that learns tospeak or an elementary school student that learns to read and write. This project involves creating the Project Automation and Collaboration Environment(PACE) for the Senior Design course of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). While PACE was created for auniversity course, it is applicable to many other
implementation represents the more general concepts.The brightest students make all of the connections easily; with help the more literalminded students also begin to see how things are related.In our experience of teaching networking in a classroom setting for computer science andIT as well as teaching courses to prepare programmers in industry to work on networkingprojects, we have found that the lectures that provide the model and vision level oflearning in these settings are almost identical. The real differences in the courses are inthe instances emphasized in the lectures and especially the instances selected for the labs.The labs for a computer science curriculum prepare a student to write and understandnetwork stacks and intermediate system