implementation of adual-purpose, cost effective, educational laboratory test apparatus. Students have the task ofdesigning an apparatus that can be used as a bending test apparatus to determine the Modulus ofRupture (MOR) and a compression test apparatus to determine the compressive strength of amaterial. The device should be able to easily convert between the two configurations. Duringthis project, students will also satisfy the writing unit requirement of the General Educationcurriculum of the Institution.This project aimed to facilitate student learning through self-learning team activity. Throughoutthe project execution period, students apply their knowledge in hands-on activity, develop theirtechnical writing and documentation skills, and gain
Experiences (FYE - some colleges and universities have a course called first-year experiences or seminars to better prepare students that are currently struggling with motivation to succeed in academic environments) 2. Common Intellectual Experiences (CIE - two or more courses that build upon same background and advance in concepts and difficulty in a given field) 3. Learning Communities (LC - students form groups to study and work on problems or projects together) 4. Writing-Intensive Courses (WIC) 5. Collaborative Assignments and Projects (CA) 6. Science as Science Is Done; Undergraduate Research (UR) 7. Diversity/Global Learning (DGL) 8. Service Learning, Community-Based Learning (SL) 9. Internships (intern
forcollection and analysis are frequently semester-long, team-based projects that address manyoutcomes and allow students to demonstrate proficiency in several areas. One such assignment isthe team-based written term project in BAE 382 (formerly BAE 465): Biomedical EngineeringApplications. The projects represent chapters in an electronic textbook that has been contributedto by students since the fall of 1994. 2,3 Projects developed over the last five years can be viewedat http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/research/blanchard/www/465/textbook/projects.html. Each chapter isbased on one of the body's systems or senses or a specialized area of biomedical engineering.Students writing about specialized areas in biomedical engineering were asked to describe: (1)The
that feature some of the components ofElizabeth’s self-designed activity. We might ask how a reflection activity in the classroom caninvoke the metacognitive processes that Elizabeth made sense of when reading, writing, andcrafting her blog. Next, we offer a second engagement with reflection that Elizabeth shared inher interview where she attempted to ask her friends reflective questions.Engagement 2: Sharing reflection with peers.When we prompted Elizabeth to think about who asks her to engage in reflection, she respondedwith, “I don’t think anyone directly asks. I usually bring it up in all of my conversations.” Shewent on to share a second engagement she had had with reflection where she attempted toprompt reflection with her peer group
communication skills. The term paper concept is based on theprinciples of ideation and implementation, the key elements of creativity and critical thinking.The development of ideas based on the students’ subject area(s) of interest serves as a drivingforce for implementation of the ideas. Implementation takes the students through the process ofliterature search for acquisition and development of knowledge base, design of experiment tovalidate and verify idea(s), performance of experiment for data acquisition, analyses andinterpretation of acquired data, and the ultimate report writing and presentation. Report writingteaches the students how to write and is an additional medium for learning the subject material.Presentation introduces and initiates the
. The presentation was assessed based on completeness, organization, visuals, writing mechanics, and presentation length. • Project 2: Structural and cultural barriers In support of course learning outcome #2, students completed an annotated bibliography and infographic related to one of the structural or cultural barriers women in engineering fields face. Students were required to review at least three primary sources and summarize information in an infographic. They shared their work with classmates in a gallery walk3. Annotated reviews were assessed primarily by source type and quality (i.e., peer reviewed), summary points, reflection response, and format. The infographics were
brings students in direct contact with faculty members from the first day on campus andestablishes a long-term solution to the attrition problem.VI. Peer-to-Peer MentoringOne strategy that has worked well in the authors’ program is peer-to-peer mentoring. In 1995one female student was invited to work on a policy issue that was of mutual interest to thestudent and mentor. In the following year, another female student was chosen. Faculty-student Page 4.352.3mentoring continued. Moreover, the first student, who was then a sophomore, also helped inthe mentoring process by sharing academic and personal experiences with the newcomer. Theprocess
). Page 8.104.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Table 1. Palm Functions vs. Student Use Function Student Use Date Book (use to plan & schedule events) 11 Address Book (store contact information) 12 Note Pad (write notes and brief documents) 8 “To Do” List (track tasks by date, category, & priority) 9 Graffiti Writing (Palm hand
Page 22.1404.9assignments within electronics laboratory courses,2 this work compares the effectiveness ofhaving students complete just one sustainability analysis writing assignment during anelectronics lecture course. This work has presented sustainability analysis learning objectives,information resources to help students achieve the learning objectives, assignment mechanics,tools to facilitate assignment peer review, and assessment results. Direct assessment resultsimply the single writing assignment in the lecture class produces similar learning to weeklywriting assignments in lab, though requiring less instructor time. Students completing both thelecture and lab sustainability analyses produce higher average assessment scores, but the
significantly more likely to skip at least one offour items: three items which asked about their salient identities when writing peer-reviewedpapers, and one that asked about participants’ overall identity as a scientist (see Table A6 foritem text and regression values).Positive and Negative AffectA 3x2 MANOVA (survey type x affect type) was run to test for effects of survey type onparticipants’ emotional state (i.e., positive or negative affect). Results indicated there was nosignificant effect of survey focus (i.e., engineering identity, identity-based motivation, and futuretime perspective) on positive or negative affect, F(4,646) = 1.075, p = .368 (see Table 1 for fullmeans, standard deviations, and univariate effects). These results indicate that
evaluate and refine theirpresentation and demonstration. In attendance are clients and representatives from the departmentindustrial advisory board members, peers, faculty, and the general public. These presentations areevaluated by the student team peers and technical advisory faculty.Instructional Objectives and AssessmentThe senior capstone project course requires students to demonstrate proficiency in variousessential skills. Students will exhibit skills in classes, labs, homework assignments, laboratoryexercises, and a designed operational project. Effective writing, effective oral communication,and use of technology are also addressed and assessed through reports, presentation, anddemonstration. For the successful completion of this course
evaluate and refine theirpresentation and demonstration. In attendance are clients and representatives from the departmentindustrial advisory board members, peers, faculty, and the general public. These presentations areevaluated by the student team peers and technical advisory faculty.Instructional Objectives and AssessmentThe senior capstone project course requires students to demonstrate proficiency in variousessential skills. Students will exhibit skills in classes, labs, homework assignments, laboratoryexercises, and a designed operational project. Effective writing, effective oral communication,and use of technology are also addressed and assessed through reports, presentation, anddemonstration. For the successful completion of this course
many forms which interdisciplinary researchmay take including peer groups working in similar areas of study, peer groups working indifferent areas of study and peer groups working on thematic problems with a commongoal. Students engage in a course of study that introduces them to a wide spectrum ofresearch topics relevant to the central theme of civil engineering materials. They alsoattend a seminar activity designed to coach them in skills ancillary to research includingliterature search, report writing, oral presentation and laboratory safety. Teams of threestudents are advised by three individual faculty mentors and three graduate coaches.Teams meet weekly to formally review and cross-fertilize their research projects withinput from their
class level.All inputs are analyzed and put into the place chosen by the learning community – thewhole class.The specific research assignment above mentioned is chosen from a list of Energy relatedtopics. This assignment goes on for six weeks with an online collaborative component.Students are requested to research, to engage in information management and validation,to establishing comparisons and decide on what works best in each case, share (facts andfigures) and discuss (supporting arguments) with their peers. At the end of the semesterthe students need to write a report and prepare a presentation to be delivered in-class forformative and summative assessment
. The result: discussed in the individual self-assessment of the participants. Mentor’s overview: Being thrown into a room with total strangers and asked toteach classes from your specialty in a contrived classroom environment is a difficult task.There are the questions of ego, realism, peer review, video self-assessment, and theobjectivity of the mentor that cause some concern. The response of this group wasexceptional and the amount of learning that took place was phenomenal. Peer review wascourteous, yet on target. Self-assessment was more critical, yet instructive. Theparticipants worked well together, learned how to assess themselves and others in amanner conducive to learning. They also found that teaching technique has a profound
nudge as it includes information about the peers’ behavior in thepush notification message. The intention behind using this nudge strategy is to allow studentsto compare their behavior with their peers. The description of the mechanism used to deliverthis nudge strategy is as follows: First, after the end of each lecture, the student will benudged to write the reflection with a general message in the push notification, i.e., “Lecture(Number) is open to write a reflection for (class code).” We will name this nudge Reminder1.0 for future reference.For the second push notification, students will be nudged with a message after six hours, i.e.,“Reminder! (Percentage number) of your peers have already submitted their reflections.Lecture (Number) is
contributed.Several assessment strategies have been suggested. • Self-assessment: Students write up summaries of their contributions to the wiki and submit them to the instructor. • Group-based assessment: Students work in groups, and rate the contributions of each group member, as well as suggesting a grade for the group as a whole. • Instructor/TA assessment: The instructor or teaching assistant assigns a grade and gives feedback without any outside assistance. Page 13.230.2 • Expert assessment: Links to the wiki pages are provided to outside experts, who assess the contributions.Proceedings of the 2008
more of the teaching practices introducedand 3) developing a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) project based on experiences intheir revised course. The summer academy includes multiple evidence-based teaching practices(such as POGIL, Mental-Model-Building, and Project Based Learning), an introduction to SoTLand IRB processes, and time for reflection and cross-disciplinary discussion of potentialapplications of each practice into participant courses. Discussion on the progress of participantSoTL projects and classroom peer observations both within and outside participant programs arethe key components of the academic year FLC.May 2014 and academic year 2014-2015 witnessed the first offering of the SPARCT Program,which engaged 16 STEM
orientation but before classes started to easenew faculty tension. Sessions were held on the three tenure criteria: research, teaching, andservice. In each session, a panel of three tenured faculty (one senior and two recently tenured)spoke about what was required for success and answered junior faculty questions. Following thethree sessions, the junior faculty had lunch with senior administrators and a discussion with theengineering dean.A particular problem in new faculty integration is bringing women into departments in whichfew or no women currently work. We started a women in engineering research network toconnect junior and senior women in all engineering departments, and thereby attain a criticalmass for effective peer-mentoring. The network
hour rehearsing each student. Much of that time is spent on organization and logical argument, focus and emphasis, and on finding a hook for the audience. I also video tape. Watching the video tape together, we discuss delivery skills. (5) Based on feedback from peers and the venture capitalist, a student or student team will make changes to a business plan and write an early-stage one with an executive summary. Those who continue to pursue their plans will start the process all over again with the concrete experience of presenting this plan to a new audience.The teaching methodology consists of calling on various groups for feedback and giving studentsa chance to discuss their ideas, informally and
Engineering was helping students to develop these skills for theirresearch thesis, as well as their career success within and outside academia. Through a survey ofChemical Engineering graduate alumni, meetings with graduate supervisors, and focus groupswith current graduate students we learnt that research skill training was not equitable:respondents reported that training was highly variable, supervisor dependent, and typicallydelivered via peer mentorship from senior graduate students. While the value of peer-to-peerlearning is reflected in the literature and is central to our course pedagogy [9], students wereconcerned about consistent quality and authority without commensurate engagement fromfaculty. Graduate students described seeking
classroom 6,7. More specifically, active learning involving researchprojects in the classroom has been widely supported as an effective pedagogical technique 3, 4, .The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) has advocated the transformation of thecurriculum in undergraduate teaching institutions from a typical lecture-based setup into aninquiry-based or research-based education. Undergraduate research experiences have beenidentified as a powerful way to enhance student learning and to develop critical thinking. Paststudies have reported the following as common characteristics of successful curricula that haveincorporated undergraduate research experiences: 1) reading of relevant literature, 2) workingwith a mentor or learning community (peer
communication.Specifically, we conducted a title search for “communication or writing or speaking orpresentations” and then examined the papers individually to determine whether they serve one ormore of four functions: (1) develop or assess the communication abilities of engineering students, (2) assess student attitudes and experiences in communication courses, (3) analyze pedagogical strategies or curriculum design processes for teaching engineering students to communicate, or (4) provide fundamental understanding of engineering writing and speaking. The search function in PEER makes it possible to identify trends across the divisions ofASEE and over time, but this function is far from perfect. A strategy like the title search
for undergraduates. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The S-STEM Scholarship: An Integrated Approach to Helping Talented Students in NeedAbstractThe S-STEM Scholarship Program at Southern Utah University provides financial, faculty, peer,and professional support to first-generation college students, minority students, and students whocome from low-income families. The program was initiated in response to the identification of ahigh percentage of SUU students with these disadvantages and to the realization that supportingthese students could increase retention at SUU in the STEM disciplines. In addition, the programseeks to help provide skilled scientists
-structured interviews allowed us to gather student perspectives on a variety of issues that theyconsidered to be relevant. In this paper, we present the analysis of the interviews. Our analysisfinds that students had three primary sources from which they deduce what they are expected todo, and how to do it: research experience prior to beginning their program, their PhD advisor, andtheir peers. Each of these sources helps students understand different kinds of expectations, withadvisors providing primarily high-level guidance on what tasks to accomplish, and peers helpingeach other with lower-level tasks. Many students began the program anticipating more hands-onsupport from their advisor, and instead found themselves relying more on their labmates
Schenectady, NY 12308AbstractFemale representation in mechanical engineering remains a critical challenge for academicinstitutions committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity. At Union College, the genderdisparity is evident, with female enrollment in the Mechanical Engineering departmentdeclining from 22.5% in the freshman cohort to only 13.3% by senior year. To address thisgap, the department has introduced initiatives aimed at supporting and retaining femalestudents through structured mentorship, peer support, and career development programs.Key among these efforts is the Female Student Mentor Project, which pairs senior studentswith underclassmen to foster academic confidence and professional growth. Additionally,regular networking events
advisor and topic is confirmed, schedule a Thesis Consult with Librarian Linette Koren, to be completed by 10/18.6 Tue 11- Workshop : Writing a model HW: You should have at least 50 sday Oct- Literature Review, Abstract, ten papers in your possession 11 Statement of Work, and by now. Submit bibliography Abstract. Proper Citations. list of these 10. Continue to PEER REVIEW of your first work on the Literature
25.250.2abstractEngineering students begin their education with varying understanding of the engineering designprocess. Effective engineering education will require us to understand how students developboth skills and a concept of engineering design. At a large Midwestern public university wecompare 100 students’ initial conceptions in design and response to design tasks both before andafter a 2-day, peer mentor led, design activity program which preceded the beginning of the firstyear in engineering. During the program, students were led through two design activities: onefocusing on idea generation and customer requirements; the second focusing on a design, buildand test activity. In addition, there were faculty presentations and discussions led by peermentors. We
. Flipped classrooms have shownvarious benefits including improved performance, fewer drops, and happier students.Studio-based learning [15][16] emphasizes student communication, collaboration, and criticalthinking skills; showing improvements in student attitude and content mastery.Researchers have examined how student collaboration and instruction affects the studentexperience. Rodriguez [28] examined how pair programming and student collaboration affectedlearning outcomes, finding that if pair programming is done properly, collaboration increaseslearning and understanding. Blaheta [4] studied cooperative learning and found that students hada positive reaction. Simon [24] found that peer instruction had a positive impact on studentperception of
stress.Students may enjoy working collaboratively with others on a challenging goal.However, others often express frustration when team communication breaks down, teammembers manage time differently, or when group members’ contributions areinequitable [2].Previous research in engineering education has examined best practices in engineeringand assessment strategies. These practices include instructor-formed teams that do notisolate underrepresented groups, establishing team policies through team contracts oroperation agreements, and providing accountability through peer-evaluations [3].Google’s research on teams revealed that the highest functioning teams providepsychological safety where team members trust one another enough to share theirconcerns