techniques. Many universities utilize a two-course sequence (first semester: passive, second semester: active), but in some cases both activeand passive circuits are taught in the same course [4]. After careful planning and discussion, itwas decided to convert an existing course into a new two-semester sequence in High FrequencyElectronics, with the first semester covering RF/microwave circuit theory and passive microwavecircuit design, and the second semester covering microwave amplifier design. The sequence istaught at the graduate level, with enrollment open to qualified undergraduates. The first course in Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Baylor University
techniques. Many universities utilize a two-course sequence (first semester: passive, second semester: active), but in some cases both activeand passive circuits are taught in the same course [4]. After careful planning and discussion, itwas decided to convert an existing course into a new two-semester sequence in High FrequencyElectronics, with the first semester covering RF/microwave circuit theory and passive microwavecircuit design, and the second semester covering microwave amplifier design. The sequence istaught at the graduate level, with enrollment open to qualified undergraduates. The first course in Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Baylor University
through both formal andinformal interactions or experienced individuals [10]. This expertise becomes a resource forcollaborative reflection and planning in communities of inquiry [11]. We posit that active forms oflearning, enacted by teachers, when deliberately related to students’ personal experiences andgrounded in deeper learning strategies are vital for achieving transformation in practice.In this paper, we describe how a group of eighth teachers at a STEAM-focused middle schoolunderstood and elicited students’ funds of knowledge in an effort to bring an asset-basedapproach to the classroom. This research contributes to the ongoing efforts to establish a moreculturally responsive educational environment for students that have been negatively
&M University. He is also the Assistant Lab Director at the Sketch Recognition Lab.Dr. Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University Dr. Thomas is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineer- ing at Texas A&M University. She is a member of the Engineering Education Faculty in the Institute for Engineering Education & Innovation at Texas A&M. She enjoys project-based learning and incorporat- ing active learning techniques in all her courses. She received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2010, focusing on developing robotic motion planning algorithms and applying them to computational biology problems including protein folding. She continued this work as
me. It allowed me to live on campus for my freshman and sophomore year. Living on campus is an amazing experience, for me, because I can always go to events and spend more time with my friends. It also allowed me more time in my studies because I did not have to dedicate my time each day to a commute from home to school, which was really helpful to me. This program also supported me in my career development. It encouraged me to go to career fairs and talk to recruiters, and it taught me how to promote myself. It also helped me in my time management skills, too, with respect to the time management workshop, I learned how to manage my time better and to plan out my week ahead of schedule, I
Engineering Certification Board (SECB) – a partnership of the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), the National Council of Structural Engineering Associations (NCSEA), and the Structural Engineering Licensure Coalition (SELC) offers board certification in structural engineering. The American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES) offers certifications in environmental engineering. The Institute of Traffic Engineers (ITE) offers certifications in transportation planning and design. A handful of states offer a structural engineer (SE) license – some states require a PE license first, but some states do not. California also offers a geotechnical engineer (GE) license
psychologically realisttheories of ethics, concerned with how people actually think about matters of right and wrongrather than merely how they should [48], [49]. For example, as a pluralist theory of ethicalreasoning, MFT helps to explain how different, competing goods can conflict, resulting in thekinds of conflicts of interests that are central to engineering ethics and other forms ofprofessional ethics [1]–[3].Planned analyses and hypothesesIn this study, MFQ and ESIT scores were treated as outcome variables, and education anddemographic information – such as gender, age, and field of study – were treated as inputvariables. Since relatively few studies have used the ESIT [17], [32], [50] – and only one hasused the ESIT in conjunction with the MFQ [33
mentorship programs.IntroductionWithin graduate education, there is a lack of proper mentorship and mentoring programs atinstitutional and college levels [1]. Mentorship is so highly correlated to student success andprogram satisfaction [2], as such, there is a critical need to establish and improve mentorshipprograms at these institutions. The National Academy of Sciences suggests that with improvedmentoring, “students' educational experience, morale, career planning and placement, andprofessional competence” [3, p. 65] will be enhanced. However, for this mentoring relationshipto flourish and be satisfactory, it requires effort by both parties which would ultimately create a‘mutually beneficial’ partnership between the faculty mentor and the
mentors are now required to create a SMART (Specific, Measurable,Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) goal [15] for each mentee and develop a plan to implementthat goal in the academic year. The SMART goal and plan should be completed by the end ofOctober. Project PIs now meet with mentors to discuss the goals for their mentees to make sure itis reasonable. In addition, we survey mentors monthly to document their activities and meet withmentors once a month to gather feedback, identify potential problems, and share successfulstories or tips. Based on the monthly report from peer mentors during the 2020-2021 academicyear, we have observed positive changes between mentors and mentees.4.2 Research ExperienceUndergraduate research is one of the thirteen
study through the act of teaching and mentoring youth in STEM outreachprogramming, and so it was determined that this phenomena was worth exploring further. It wasalso through a discussion with program directors that led to the second reflection question onchallenging assumptions, as they identified this as part of the learning experience for theirinstructors.A summary of key questions and themes is outlined in table 5, below, and the full reflection andinterview protocol is available upon request.Table 5: Interview and Reflection Protocol June: Interview 1 ● Why did you pursue this opportunity? ● How does it link to your future plans/field of study? ● What training did you receive this summer? What additional training would you like to
110) instead of the Calculus, at least one semester delay in thegraduation can occur. Additionally, if a student fails one or more of these pre-requisite chains,the student’s graduation will be delayed by at least one more semester. Another factor thataggravates this situation is that most of the higher division courses are only offered once a yearat CSU Chico and are not offered during the summer or at other universities across the nation.Therefore, the importance of passing the math courses at the scheduled semester is evident of thestudy plan to reduce the time-to-graduation.About 19.1% of the incoming freshman and transfer students in the College of Engineering andComputer Science did not enroll in Calculus as their first math course in
; Conklin’s article. Representational images include a flower, raindrops, and people inconversation. Relational seed shapes and page forms include dotted lines, squares, and circles.]Workshop demonstration 3: Ideating arguments using VPFsWhen beginning my dissertation in 2018, I (Erica) began to use VPFs to ideate my ownarguments and dissertation plans (see Figure 7). As mentioned in our Visualizing Arguments andSketchnotes section, the affordances of VPFs are both rhetorical and epistemological; they helpnew scholars, like myself, think across purposes and make new knowledge and developconcepts.When drawing visual metaphors or using VPFs to ideate their own arguments for the first time,students face two particular struggles: 1) thinking with the
students, and design and delivery of courses.Pedagogical design strategies and delivery practices that are carefully planned for workingprofessionals must be considered to ensure success in achieving learning outcomes as well as fullengagement of the students with the program and curriculum. The right combination of advising,administration, technology, pedagogy, and content is required to produce an environment inwhich these non-traditional students thrive and succeed in achieving learning outcomes andobjectives and persist in enrollment and degree completion in a reasonable amount of time.Literature points to effective strategies for programs that cater to non-traditional students, bestpractices in asynchronous course design, and ways to prepare
or schematics of potential solutions 12. Account for potential future impacts in developing a solution 13. Prepare technical communication, including written and oral reports or use of figures to represent work 14. Demonstrate social awareness, empathy, and self-awareness in interactions with others 15. Follow proper data collection procedures 16. Account for ways natural environment may affect or be affected by one's work 17. Interpret data, such as results from modeling, validation, and other data processing 18. Develop plans and procedures for experiments 19. Build tangible artifacts as models, prototypes, or working products 20. Consider ethical responsibility 21. Negotiate
proportion of students (40%) may enter BMEconsidering pathways like medical school or graduate school, many of those students (from 17%entering the degree to 45% upon graduation) end up pursuing industry positions after graduation[8]. Given the previous figures on students’ career plan changes between entry and graduation, aswell as the stigma that BME bachelor’s degree graduates experience with industry careerplacement barriers, more research is needed to understand students’ perceptions of BME industrycareer pathways, particularly at a later stage in the degree. Understanding these perceptions canhelp inform how BME programs are advertised, how programs help students explore industrycareer options, and how programs strategize partnerships with
the basics of user experience design.Mentors were given a lesson plan for all of the modules with the autonomy to update andinfluence content with socially and culturally relevant examples. An example of a modulecreated by the near-peer mentor included ways to simply teach inclusive design andaccessibility concepts to high schoolers by showing them examples from the web. Theycreated a classroom project within the Web Design activity that showed the students how toprovide constructive feedback to other projects to improve their initial design for theprototype solutions. Table 5: Camp activities showing unit name, sample lesson, and a description. Unit Activity Description Intro to CS and Given a list of 15 African
. The GPSS aims to supportgovernment decision-makers in boosting efficient large-scale intervention strategies andinvestment plans to reduce disaster risks in schools and improve learning environments forchildren.ContextIn the learning experience examined in this paper, two student teams were formed during theWinter 2020 term to collaborate with a professional team from the GPSS of the World Bank todesign a solution aimed at improving baseline data to assess the vulnerability of schoolinfrastructure. Students from an upper-division undergraduate level Human-ComputerInteraction (HCI) course and a graduate-level Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)course participated. The AI/ML team developed a back-end automatic structural
and the conducting of evidence-based interventions in school environments.Dr. Darryll J. Pines, University of Maryland College Park Darryll Pines became Dean and Nariman Farvardin Professor of Engineering at the Clark School on Jan- uary 5, 2009, having come to the school in 1995 as an assistant professor and served as chair of the school’s Department of Aerospace Engineering from 2006 to 2009. As dean, Pines has led the devel- opment of the Clark School’s current strategic plan and achieved notable successes in key areas such as improving teaching in fundamental undergraduate courses and raising student retention; achieving suc- cess in national and international student competitions; giving new emphasis to
Introduction to Blended, Flipped, Mastery Learning Document: FYI The objective of this unit is to familiarize students with the technologies used in this course, to aid students in creating a personal plan for success in this course, and to begin to establish peer-peer interaction among students. By the end of this module, students should: 1) be able to access Canvas for course materials 2) be familiar with the vocabulary and concepts that differentiate classroom and online education 3) understand the concepts of ‘adult learning’ and ‘mastery learning’ 4) have, in mind, a plan for successfully completing this course 5) complete at least one
can be as effective as the semester-long experience if adequately structured andmanaged [28]. Institutions would need to develop quality programs to ensure that programoutcomes are developed for diverse students and program needs [19]. Hence, the need to makeappropriate adjustments to the curriculum with faculty involved in the planning and designing ofshort-term programs is significant to strengthen programs [24]. It is relevant and effective whenshort-term study abroad programs are composed of a semester-long class to enrich students’experience, overcome curricular challenges, and adequately prepare students for the trip abroad[18].Institution Study Abroad ProgramThe Rising Sophomore Abroad Program (RSAP) engineering study abroad program
literature presents many examples ofindividual faculty efforts on adopting entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) in courses suchas thermodynamics, facility planning, supply chain, circuit analysis, biomechanics, and structuralanalysis [7-12]. This paper presents such effort involving a junior level engineering statisticscourse. Given the abundance of data in today’s world and the importance of extracting meaningout of them, statistics is an important tool for any discipline including and especiallyengineering. This importance is summed up in the following quote from Walter Shewhart, who isknown as the father of statistical quality control: “The long range contribution of statisticsdepends not so much upon getting a lot of highly trained
plan the course for the second semester of the junior year.Fogler’s Elements [4] and Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering [5] textbooks are stillthe most popular, used by 60% of the 85 reporting courses, as shown in Figure 2. Fogler’stextbooks were also the most commonly used in the 1991 and 2010 surveys [6]. A sixth editionof the Folger Elements textbook was released in Fall 2020 but was not captured in this survey.The “Other” category includes books by Hill, Froment, Hayes, and Davis as well as others notfurther described. The websites used most often in 63 responding courses are the textbookwebsite and the course’s learning management system (Figure 3). Other resources notspecifically listed in the figure include Chemical Safety
provided opportunity for the student groups to worktogether in breakout rooms. Presentation slides and lesson plans for these synchronousworkshops were prepared by the instructor and provided to the peer leaders in advance. Week Day Topic / Goal Introduction M Course introduction 1 W Introduction to sustainability F Introduction to life cycle thinking M Design thinking 2 W Design thinking Tools F Engineering communication M
theprocess of visualizing data, other tools for visualization are introduced. The sections belowprovide examples how the cereal dataset is utilized in each activity worksheet.Week 1: AcquireThe multi-stage data visualization process is introduced. Learning activity: Acquisition.Students use the Acquire Activity Worksheet as a guide for completing the acquire stage usingthe using the acquire activity worksheet. Learning outcome: students should be able to describewhat happens in the acquire stage, describe how to locate and identify reputable data sources,demonstrate actions taken to acquire data, explain how the acquire stage impacts thevisualization, explain how data is acquired (the process). Students should be able to plan,generate and produce
and expressed their willingness to make modifications when discussingthe feedback with their instructors. These context rich conversations are important to buildrapport and trust.Students were asked to provide comments to their peers and this written feedback reflected thenumerical score they received if they were doing well or could be doing something better. Someconstructive comments were: • Update the team on overall progress by keeping track of each individual’s tasks. • Have a set plan for each workday with goals and a direction for us to work towards.Some comments to reinforce positive leadership behavior included: • Improved communication between the group and listening to advice. • Very good leader - served the team
would actout the roles of an entry-level engineer working on a problem located on ancestral landsintended to aid the local tribal community facing a particular resource-based problem.The participants were required to assess their knowledge of the scenario contents,describe a personal learning plan to better understand the situation and identify keyvariables that would impact decisions made about the situations within the scenario.These two additions to the summer program led to more emphasis on teamwork andleadership skill development to help students learn to communicate better, collaboratewith each other effectively and be more active in setting their own educational goals.These “beyond the curriculum” lessons were found to help students form
’ GPAs? Therest of this paper details how the analysis plan was created, the tools that were used, the results of theanalysis, and the potential usefulness of the technique in engineering education research. MethodParticipantsThe data for this study were collected as part of a larger study of undergraduate engineering andcomputing students from over a dozen institutions. Since the current analysis uses data gathered frominstitutional records, the project’s full sample was limited to the 562 students enrolled at the institutionthat is the focus of this smaller study. Of those 562 students, 457 began enrollment in Fall 2017 and hadGPAs for all of the tested timepoints (see Table 1 for demographic
art. Yet, Dan’s academic plan to support his well-being and be happy are highly criticized. Dan’s vision long-term goal to be employable hasn’t happened and locates himself as “sitting in a void” reconciling with how to modify his plan or where things went wrong. Dan’s internalized yearly failures - the first 2 years of co-op/intern rejections as his lack of soft skills (being personable) and the third year as bad luck because of COVID—are from poor planning that should have been more career-oriented. Dan found the arts helpful to his personal growth and related more to these participating members than engineers. Reflecting Dan grapples with what he should’ve done,“ I shouldn't have made that um, I guess that happiness my
ethics game.Future DevelopmentsThe interactive choose-your-own-path ethics game engaged undergraduate students with ethicaldecision making that had consequences larger than originally anticipated and that were affectedby external influences. We plan to adopt several modifications and to include additional studentcohorts to increase the number of participants in future iterations of the game.The simulation will continue to be implemented in both courses already described. We will betraining faculty that run additional discussion sections of the first-year engineering designcourse, which will quickly expand game use. A complete course drop-in package will bedeveloped for faculty to easily employ in their classes. The ESIT will again be administer
included in the numerator of the retention rate.DiscussionThe biggest challenge in this study was the pandemic. COVID-19 limited in-person instructionand increased the academic workload for students and faculty alike. Student mental health issueswere exacerbated by COVID-19. Additionally, social distancing restrictions limited coordinationbetween instructors and course designers and required the use of hybrid and remote instruction.The hypothesis is that this corequisite course could improve retention and graduation rates forlow-income students. The plan was to rely heavily on survey data from student participants forsocioeconomic information. Unfortunately, there was a low responses rate on our survey andfocus groups. This made it a