bioengineering, service learning, universal design, tissue and protein engineering labs, bioengineering ethics, leadership, and capstone proposal writing and design. She is committed to enhancing diversity and inclusivity in en- gineering, and creating opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in K-12 educational outreach. Dr. Hendricks has over a decade of experience leading educational outreach and summer camp programs at both Duke University and the University of Washington.Dr. Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington Ken Yasuhara is an instructional consultant and assistant director at the Office for the Advancement of Engineering Teaching & Learning (ET&L) at the University of Washington. He completed an
stories pertaining to the curriculum to each other, the industry partners, and the VT-PEERS implementation team.Student Reflections: At the closing of all lessons and activities, students are asked to reflect onwhat they learned about the content and about engineering in general. Unfortunately, these oftenbecame rushed in many of the sessions. While an open-ended questions generally invite thegreatest variety of answers, we learned that it also provides difficulties in extracting answersfrom 6th grade students. Some of the challenges included the reading and writing level ofstudents, the time allotted for students to write their reflections, and the understanding of thereflection question itself. While some student answers showed a direct
framework for critique by our peers so that we can incorporate their feedback duringthe pilot. We also hope to raise awareness of this project to encourage additional colleges toadopt the framework in the future.We define research-based teaching practices as pedagogical strategies that have been tested usingeducational research methods and published in peer-reviewed literature. Future faculty aregraduate students and post-doctoral fellows who aspire to faculty positions that include teachingresponsibilities, however, current faculty will also be invited to participate in the DLCs.The motivation for this NSF-funded project is that research-based teaching practices have beenshown to improve student learning compared to traditional methods like
conducted research into heavy metals concentrations in plants and soils on Pine Ridge Reservation and ethnographic research on Rosebud Reservation. That reservation research is part of an ongoing National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Pre-Engineering Education Collabora- tive led by Oglala Lakota College (a tribal college) in cooperation with South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and SDSU. She has recently served as a principal investigator for a South Dakota Space Grant Consortium project designed to create interest in STEM education and careers among high school girls at Flandreau Indian School. She has publications in peer-reviewed regional conference proceedings and international journals and has recently
studentleaders on how to deal with management issues within their team, and to introduce team timecards in conjunction with an instructor evaluation and peer feedback to increase individualaccountability. Our goals were to improve the capstone design experience for the aerospaceengineering students, and to better understand the evolution of students as individuals and intheir team relationships.Changes to the Aerospace Capstone Design Course during the 2016-2017 Program.Increased Student Choice in Topic Selection.Marin et.al. identified student ownership as one part of designing an optimal experience forcapstone design [1], and we hypothesized that if students were allowed a chance to researchpossible topic areas, propose projects to their peers, and
EngineerThroughout the Introduction to Engineering I course, students explore the field of engineeringand consider their reasons for pursuing an engineering major. The One-Minute Engineer is athree-part assignment where students first write a 300-400 word essay about why they arestudying engineer, conduct a peer-edit to reduce the word count to approximately 150 words, andfinally, present their One-Minute Engineer orally in front of their classmates. This assignmenthelps students articulate why they want to be an engineer while honing their technical writingand presentation skills. In their written drafts and presentations, students were required to reflecton at least one of their top-five Strengths.Results and DiscussionTeam formationIn general, the four
chunkin’ project. Students had to essentially repeat the marshmallow project,except in a larger team with a full-scale launcher that was capable of firing a five pound pumpkin100 yards.The concept of technical writing was frontloaded in Fundamentals of Engineering by scaffoldingthe content, as described below. Project 1 required a one-page summary per team of three; Students received a lecture on technical writing; Project 2 required a full technical memo per team of six; Students completed a peer-review process on their individual Project 3 reports; and Project 3 required each individual to create a full technical memo.The final concepts frontloaded in Fundamentals of Engineering were the software programs taughtto
, student andfaculty reflections and data received automatically by the game programs. Preliminary analysis ofstudent feedback and faculty reflections indicates increased learner motivation, enhanced reviewof technical content and an upbeat atmosphere to the classroom. Faculty reflections also notedthat the use of games that allow learners to answer the questions individually helped facultyidentify those students who had successfully mastered the concepts, which allowed the instructorto structure peer-to-peer active learning opportunities during class more effectively. Future workincludes analyzing test scores, and other measures of long-term retention of concepts. Overall,use of these gamification tools was found to be a significant addition to
in an interactive environment in which mistakesand confusion are encouraged, that in turn leads to a deeper path of learning and increasedstudent motivation.Motivation The final component of Bandura’s (1977) Memory Modelling System is motivation. Tobe able to model, recreate and reproduce knowledge successfully, students need to be motivatedto learn (Hargis, 1999). Emily McIntosh (2017) explores how peer assisted study sessionsengage and motivate students, and leads to improved retention. In addition, the development ofproblem solving and critical thinking skills improved student resilience (McIntosh, 2017). Inrespect to resilience and motivation, Claudia Muller and Caroll Dweck (1998) write that praisingstudents’ intelligence results
Focus of Cohort Meetings September Kickoff/icebreaker activity to build community among cohort participants; needs assessment for CLEAR Scholars; and a Resources for Success Workshop facilitated by school-/campus-level office (e.g., Learning Assistance Center; Writing Center; Math Assistance Center) to promote Scholar achievement as the academic year starts. October Career Development Workshop, based on needs assessment, to help students prepare for Career Fairs and plan ahead for internship opportunities November Leadership Development Workshop, facilitated by an industrial representative from the Dean’s Industrial Advisory Council (DIAC) on an emerging
section of institution types to enablesimilar observations.The pivotal Bowers study that spanned 99 institutions found that half of the students admitted tocommitting some sort of academic integrity violation while attending college, but only a smallpercent of cheaters was caught and punished. Bowers argued that most students morallydisapproved of cheating and believed their peers to disapprove as well, but they continued tocheat due to academic survival outweighing moral decision-making [6]. Thirty years afterBowers’ article, in 1994, McCabe and Bowers compared the results of McCabe’s research in1991 to the results of Bowers’ study in 1964 [7]. A portion of the survey instrument used in thecurrent work asks students to self-report the number of
, feelings, andbehaviors of first-generation and low-income students in prerequisite and introductoryengineering courses: calculus, physics, and computer science. There were not many of thesestudents; 16.7% of students indicated that they did not have a parent or guardian who hadcompleted a bachelor’s degree or higher, and only 13.2% of students surveyed indicated thatthey had an annual family income of $50,000 or less. After a brief literature review, we willdescribe the participants, materials, and procedure before comparing the readiness, beliefs,achievement, and behaviors of both the first generation college students and low incomestudents to their peers. I. Literature Review External obstacles
research centre. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Preliminary Findings of a Phenomenological Study ofMiddle Eastern Women’s Experiences Studying Engineering in IrelandKeywords: Arabic, Middle Eastern, women, gender, engineering education research, PBL,collaborative learning, Peer Learning, supportThis paper reports analysis of phenomenological interviews conducted with eight womenstudying engineering, all Arabic speakers and practicing Muslims, and all from thecountries of Oman and Kuwait. Data were collected as part of a larger study of women’sexperiences learning engineering in institutions of higher education in Poland, Portugal,and Ireland. The eight women contributing data for the
science courses with content only 10% to Hispanics/Latinos [5]—these numbers are farrelated to biology, (2) cohorts of students that progress lower than one would expect based on these groups’ sharethrough the program together, and (3) a small group peer of the population. Indeed, today CS remains one of thementoring environment, and (4) facilitated least diverse STEM disciplines. In addition to signaling ainterdisciplinary research projects. Graduates from this substantial problem with educational equity [6], societyprogram, referred to as "PINC" - Promoting INclusivity in has increasingly come to realize that this lack of diversityComputing - will receive a
initial survey was conducted on Computer Technology (ComET)students. The survey is now being conducted on Construction management EngineeringTechnology (CmET) students.There were some minor differences in the two studies. Although the CmET students have beenpreviously exposed to projects with video interaction, these projects were optional. Therefore,not all CmET students had previously completed a video presentation. Both the instructor andthe students’ required Technical Writing course have offered optional video presentationprojects. Since the students have been exposed to the concept and this was the first timeintroducing video presentations in the course, very little course time was spent explicitly onlearning required techniques. This
. The later includedpresentations at the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Colloquium. Assessment was based onstudents’ (1) work; (2) peer evaluations using Comprehensive Assessment of Team-MemberEffectiveness (CATME), a web-based tool; (3) surveys during the CP experience; and (4)surveys in post-requisite courses. The comparison of these assessments provides cross-sectionaland semi-longitudinal results. Cross-sectional results obtained in post-requisite courses indicatedthat CP students in comparison with non-CP students, typically had a higher level of agreementthat they understood thermodynamics; had built professional camaraderie with some of theirengineering classmates in thermodynamics; were excited to do undergraduate research; and
, and Solid and Hazardous Waste Technologies. COL Starke has published several peer reviewed research articles and has presented his research at national and international conferences. He maintains a focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning in en- gineering education. COL Starke is a registered Professional Engineer (Delaware), member of several professional associations, and is a member of the National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Sur- veyors (NCEES).Major David C. Zgonc, United States Military Academy Major Zgonc was a recent instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point where he taught introductory environmental engineering and environmental chemistry classes. Major Zgonc is a
ability to communicate in practice• Impact of accents• Coping mechanism of self-segregation (Rose- Redwood and Rose-Redwood, 2013) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering Education Session CEED 432 Overcoming Challenges• Focus on empowerment and practice • Ongoing language support (opportunities to practice, writing centers) • Workshops specifically targeting professional communication, LinkedIn, career fairs, networking, navigating cultural differences in the workplace, etc. • Peer mentorship Proceedings
thenutilized when students test original hypotheses that are extensions of the original research. Theappropriate standard for these research questions continues to be their worthiness for publicationor presentation, thus training the writing and speaking skills of students.Our REU ModelAt the University of Detroit Mercy, we designed a pilot project based on this model. Anundergraduate student researcher was tasked with reproducing and extending a physicslaboratory experiment published within the pages of The Physics Teacher or the AmericanJournal of Physics. These journals have well-deserved reputations within the physics communityfor peer-reviewed, research-based innovations in undergraduate teaching and research. Theycontain a wealth of ideas and
teams and improve peer interactions [3], but these interactions are impacted by the groupdynamics [4]. Social presence is one important factor in student interactions. Social presence isdefined as interpersonal salience [5]. Online computer-based environments generally have alowered social presence than face-to-face conversations, as the interlocutors’ faces, facialexpressions, and voices may be masked. Students have been shown to be willing to provide moresubstantive critiques of peer writing in an environment with low social presence compared toface-to-face settings, both in high school students and at the university level [6], [7].Much work has been done investigating gender breakdown of groups in team learning, findingthat women participate
active team member. We used CourseMIRROR mobilelearning system to collect students’ reflections during an academic semester. We also evaluatedeach student reflection based on its quality. The reflection quality here refers to specificity orvagueness of reflections. Based on our prior research on the significance of the reflection qualityon student learning [1], we developed a coding schema to specify the degree of reflection’squality. We further used the Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness(CATME) for peer and self-evaluation on five dimensions. Initial findings reveal statisticallysignificant relations between five aspects of CATME and reflection’s quality. We also conductedlinear regression analyses to explore how these five
empowermentwhile instructing in the classroom.IntroductionThis paper will discuss adjustments to the training of teaching assistants and how empowermenttheory was used to analyze the results of the training changes. Teaching assistants (TAs) arecommonly used in first-year engineering classes to provide instruction, grade student work,provide peer mentoring, and assist in course content delivery and development. In this large first-year program specifically, TAs are relied on heavily due to the high number of students. TheOhio State University has a teaching model that includes Faculty members, Graduate TeachingAssociates (GTAs), and Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) in its first-year engineeringprogram. These GTAs and UTAs perform a wide range of
Washington include introductory and honors courses in bioengineering, tissue and protein engineering lab courses, diversity and ethics in bioengineering, lead- ership, service learning, and bioengineering capstone writing and design courses. She is committed to enhancing diversity and inclusivity in engineering, and creating opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in service and educational outreach. Dr. Hendricks has over a decade of experience leading K-12 educational outreach and summer camp programs at both Duke University and the University of Washington.Camille BirchCelina Gunnarsson c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Exploring the Interplay of Diversity and
by connecting them with peers,enabling them to participate in skills-based workshops and hands-on projects, connecting them toalumni and other industry mentors, and helping them to become immersed in campus life prior tothe start of their freshman year of college. In recently two years, more women students arerecruited to the program, a unique mini program “RAMP for High School Girls is designed. Theobjective for this program is to expose students to various STEM disciplines.The six-week mini RAMP program is organized as modules. Each week the female studentsexplore a different STEM discipline. The Mechanical and Electrical modules are presented inthis paper. An entrance survey and an exit survey were conducted to collect data right before
classroom as a blendedlearning model; where videos are viewed outside of scheduled class time and face-to-facemeetings are used for alternative strategies (e.g., instructor guided active learning, cooperativelearning, peer led team learning, etc.) to promote deeper learning. A 2015 survey of highereducation faculty indicates that 69.5% of respondents have flipped an activity, class, period, orcourse, and plan to implement the model again (Magna 2015).Video Creation by InstructorsFor instructor survey Q1, making of a video to support a course taught by the instructor, 43responses were received. Of the 43, 18 (42%) instructors indicated “yes” to having created avideo, while 25 (58%) indicated “no”.Use of Online Engineering Education VideosQ2 on the
instruction in their freshman Englishcomposition course and standards and patent searching in their junior engineering design course.Students also receive ad hoc information fluency instruction if a course has a research paper andthe instructor requests information fluency instruction from the library.ProblemA review of lab reports from the Fall 2016 semester of the Fluid/Thermal Laboratory revealedthe following problems in student work: • Trouble differentiating between the different types of sources, including the use of non-peer-reviewed materials, such as websites; • Lack of assessment of quality of reference material; • Lack of familiarity with how to use technical papers; • Few references when writing
MyEngineeringLab system.Laurel Whisler, Clemson University Laurel Whisler is Assistant Director and Coordinator of Course Support Programs in Clemson Univer- sity’s Westmoreland Academic Success Program. In this capacity, she provides vision and direction for the Tutoring and Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) programs and provides support to the General Engi- neering Learning Community. She is also co-developer of Entangled Learning, a model of rigorously- documented, self-directed learning in communities of practice. She has an M.A. in Music from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.L.S. from Indiana University.Ms. Abigail T. Stephan, Clemson University Abigail Stephan is a doctoral student in the Learning Sciences program at
industry practices, ePortfolio documentation of skills, andcollaborative peer engagement unlike anything currently available in Introduction to Engineeringcourses in the MOOC community. In the first offering of this course, 4,014 students wereenrolled including 69 students who paid a small fee to be ID-verified in order to potentiallyreceive a certificate for completion of the course; 22 students successfully completed the course.This paper describes the course goals, structure, and design including specific challenges relatedto designing a course for the MOOC environment. The implementation of the course will also bediscussed, including preliminary data on the effectiveness obtained from an end-of-course surveyadministered to students enrolled in
, insufficient preparation and barriers in recruiting into engineering programs at the K-12 level, low self-efficacy, lack of peer support, inadequate academic advising or faculty support, harmful stereotypes of particular groups that influence interactions in classrooms or in peer groups, and a chilly or unappealing climate [1- 9]. These factors may exist at the level of the institution, the engineering college, and/or the engineering-specific department. Given the current accreditation structure for engineering programs, students’ experiences may be more influenced by institution and college-level factors in their first two years, when they are taking basic science and breadth courses, and shift to department-level factors in their upperclassmen years
flipped instruction. Module 2: Online Engagement – Creating Videos Introduction to different types of videos. By the end of this module, faculty will have decided what type of video they want to create; selected and mastered technology to write or create videos for examples, record videos, post videos online; posted and received student feedback on one example video. Module 3: Engaging Students Actively in the Classroom Introduction to active learning including peer discussion, sharing and problem solving, case studies, etc. By the end of this module, faculty will have articulated active learning strategies that work in their discipline; tested out new