participants had differentperceptions about the centrality of their Black identity and mixed feelings about enacting thisidentity while attending school. That is, although all participants were Black students, theyplaced race in different places of the identity circle (or, not at all), reflecting the relative salienceof the identity for each of them.From the FIE 2020 Paper: Brawner, Catherine, Marisa Orr, Rebecca Brent, and Catherine Mobley. 2020. “Experiences of Black Persisters and Switchers in Computer, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in the USA.” Proceedings of the IEEE/FIE Conference, October.In this paper, we begin to provide information about institutional policies that may influencestudent persistence and attrition
motivational beliefs and learningstrategies. Qualitative data collected from individual interviews and focus groups is being codedand analyzed to provide a more complete understanding of what helps students persist tograduation in an engineering major. Recommendations for future work include investigationsinto the role student mindsets (growth vs. fixed) and student workload expectations play in theirretention.The material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1644119. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.6.0 References[1] O. Brown, M. Morris, R. Hensel, and J
pilot of this class prior to this grant combined a small,bioinspired robotics course with PSTs in the educational technology course, where the UESs andPSTs could work together on a larger project. Therefore, future collaborations will include eitherthe bioinspired robotics course or electromechanical systems course, both which have smallerclass sizes.Preliminary results [7,8] suggest that the instruments developed for collaborations 1(engineering design process) and 3 (computational thinking) may not be sensitive enough todetect changes in content knowledge. Therefore, additional research is being implemented toimprove those assessments. The reflection assignments provided valuable information on bothwhat students learned and how they viewed
and persistenceto graduation. Scholarship recipients also participate in focus groups and one-on-one interviewsand that data is being analyzed with the goal of gaining a holistic understanding of studentretention and finding trends in longitudinal change in students’ perceptions of the engineeringprofession as well as in their motivation and persistence.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. DUE-1644119. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] J. Kruger, and D. Dunning, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in
trips.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1852161. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material arethose of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] Pariyothorn, M, Autenrieth, R.L, “Strategic use of summer undergraduate research experiences,” ASEE Annual Conf. & Expo, San Antonio, USA, 2012. doi: 10.18260/1-2--21934[2] West, M., Cross, W., Kellogg, S. Boysen, A., “A novel REU program to develop the skills of the engineer of 2020,” Proceedings – Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Rapid City, SD, USA, 2011. doi: 10.1109/FIE.2011.6143019[3] American Speech
game and 10for DZ-Man game) in all the cases. The significance levels are 0.0051 for 2014 DZ-Man data,0.0006 for 2015 DZ-Man data, and 0.0006 for 2015 Angry Curves data. This means the increasesof students’ understanding on the targeted concepts (reflected by the quiz scores) are statisticallysignificant. a) 2014 DZ-Man data b) 2015 DZ-Man data c) 2015 Angry Curves data Figure 7. Matched Pairs T-Tests for Different Experiments Pre/Post Scores4. Beyond the CampusAt this stage of the project, we allow users from all over the world to have access to the games.This means the users of the games will no longer be limited within campus. The players’ datawill still be collected for further research purpose. The paper
practice of engineering requires the application of science, mathematics, and engineeringMathematics Knowledge (SEM) knowledge and engineering education at the K-12 level should emphasize this interdisciplinary nature. Students should be independent and reflective thinkers capable of seeking out new knowledge andEngineering Thinking (EThink) learning from failure when problems arise. Conceptions of Engineers and K-12 students not only need to participate in an engineering process, but understand what an engineer Engineering (CEE) does.Engineering Tools, Techniques, Students studying engineering need to become familiar and proficient in the processes, techniques
, and data analysis of those focusgroups—and mixing results with the quantitative data—are ongoing. Thus far, early findingshave been disseminated at multiple conferences. 10,11,12,13,14AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1428502. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References1 Laanan, F. S., Starobin, S. S., & Eggleston, L. E. (2010). Adjustment of community college students at a four-year university: Role and relevance of transfer student capital for student retention. Journal of College Student Retention
, from merely understanding, to reflection, creation, and evaluation. Boardgames and role-playing games are formats that create community; students interact with oneanother over intellectual, enjoyable, and memorable shared experiences. When the co-authorsplay board games in their classrooms, they note 100% of students in class that day engage ingame play – anecdotally, this activity seems to engage more students than other types of activelearning strategies. And finally, board games and role-playing games are an ideal format becauseany faculty or student can easily modify them. This poster presents our project results to date andprovides recommendations and resources to adopt game design in civil engineering andconstruction courses
represents either adeep-rooted misconception or misunderstanding, or an unwillingness to use the coin distributionmethod as a reflection of one's uncertainty in knowing the answer. In either case, these studentresponses do not provide much more information than the traditional, deterministic approach foranswering multiple-choice questions. There is, however, a small population of students thatprovide some reasonable likelihood (>25 coins) that the correct answer could be correct, eventhough it was not the final selection. A threshold of 25 coins is used because that numberrepresents random selection of an answer. In other words, a student with no knowledge wouldtheoretically assign 25 coins to each one of four answer choices.Coin Distribution
3.60 1.00engineering design processHave students communicate solutions to a problem 2.60 3.60 1.00in oral formatHave students communicate solutions to a problem 1.80 2.80 1.00by formal presentationHave students reflect in a notebook or journal 1.80 3.00 1.20Have students develop a design portfolio 1.20 2.40 1.20Have students critique their own work 2.20 3.40 1.20Have students critique other students' work 1.80 3.00 1.20Have students rework solutions based on self or 1.40 3.40 2.00peer
formats for use with a variety of computer More Axes platforms. 9) Reflection and Symmetry Video how-to instructions. Additional videos 10) Cross-Sections of Solids provide step-by-step instruction for difficult concepts for several exercises, including the first isometric sketch, which can be daunting for students with weak spatial skills. Engagement tracking. Instructors can login and determine how much time students spend on each activity. This data will inform optimal design of the materials available to students. iPad sketching exercises. iPad touch-screen capability enables the development of sketching exercises that can be completed with
). Counseling and social support: Perspectives and practice. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.Philip, K., & Hendry, L. B. (2000). Making sense of mentoring or mentoring making sense? Reflections on the mentoring process by adult mentors with young people. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 10(3), 211-223.Pounds, A. W. (1987). Black students' needs on predominantly white campuses. New Directions for Student Services, 1987(38), 23-38.Sedlacek, W. E. (1983). Teaching minority students. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 16, 39-50.Seymour, E., & Hewitt, N. M. (1997). Talking about leaving: Why undergraduates leave the sciences (Vol. 12). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.Steele, C. M., &
encouraging. To expandour forensics modules, we plan to develop Internet forensics and cloud forensics in the near future.The main improvement suggestion we received from students was developing more advanced andchallenging game modules to inspire creativity. We will continue to disseminate our gameframework to communities. In the near future, we plan to develop a repository to collect variousmodules developed by the community and share them with the academic and professionalcommunity.7. AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work partly supported by the National Science Foundation underAward DUE-1400567. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect
background (e.g., university, major, QPA), travel abroad/ international experiences(e.g., level of interest in international issues, foreign language proficiency), and characteristics ofthe international experiences (e.g., programmatic elements of experiences such as duration,amount of reflection, and comfort zone). The combined set of instruments (EGPI, GPI, andbackground survey were administered to two samples of seniors at each of the four partnerinstitutions – those who had at least one international experience and those with no internationalexperiences. In addition, a third sample of incoming freshmen served as both a comparison groupand an institutional baseline. This dataset was then used for the quantitative studyThe 25% of seniors with the
) engineering and en- trepreneurship education; 2) the pedagogy of ePortfolios and reflective practice in higher education; and 3) redesigning the traditional academic transcript.Dr. Angela Harris, Stanford University Angela is currently a Fellow with the Thinking Matters program at Stanford University. Angela received her PhD in Stanford’s Environmental Engineering and Science Program (Spring 2015). Angela completed her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology prior to coming to Stanford for her M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Angela conducts research related to water, sanitation, and child health in developing countries. Angela has extensive experience in developing survey
#P120A140064. Opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of thefunding agency.ReferencesAbel, J. & Deitz, R. (2014). Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs? Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 20(3), 2014.American Psychological Association, (2012). Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Education: Psychology’s Contributions to Understanding and Reducing Disparities, American Psychological Association, 2012.Auerbach, S. (2004). Engaging Latino parents in supporting college pathways: Lessons from a college access program. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 3(2), 125–145.Baum, S
critical to outreach in the large surrounding school districts whoseminority populations averages 72.5%, and 64.8% of students are considered to be economicallydisadvantaged. Our scholarship program will strengthen its role in increasing the number of well-educated and skilled engineers from diverse and underserved backgrounds.AcknowledgmentThe project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation grant #1457880. Their support isgreatly appreciated.References 1. Packard, B.: Mentoring and Retention in College Science: Reflections on the Sophomore Year. Journal College Student Retention 6(3), 289-300 (2004) 2. Wilson, Z., Holmes, L., de Gravelles, K., Sylvain, M., Batiste, L., Johnson, M., McGuire, S., Pang, S., Warner, I
that may improve the students’ performanceand help them graduate on time. One possible future work is to identify the bottleneck coursesand investigate the paths that lead to failing or passing them.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported in part by NSF Grant# 1447489. We would like to thank ourinformants for participating in the field studies reported here. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] Pandey, U. K. and Pal, S. (2011), “A Data Mining View on Class Room Teaching Language”, (IJCSI)International Journal of Computer Science Issue, Vol. 8, Issue 2, 277-282, ISSN:1694-0814[2
strategies for developing designs that emphasize how users interact with the final product. The course has been determined to achieve the outcomes of the Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (DISJ) requirement for the University core curriculum. To our knowledge, this is the only required engineering class that is also approved for satisfying a campus-wide, core curriculum diversity requirement. The new outcomes include that by the end of the course, the students will: o Have critically reflected on, compared, contrasted, and articulated their own unearned advantage (privilege) and disadvantage in relation to their immersion experience with users. o Be able to use
-1217285 and is supported in part by funds given to the National ScienceFoundation by the Intel Foundation and the GE Foundation. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. ASEE (2012). “Going the distance: Best practices and strategies for retaining engineering, engineering technology and computing students”. American Society of Engineering Education.2. Barnett, E. A., Bork, R.H., Mayer, A.K., Pretlow, J., Wathington, H.D., and Weiss, M.J. (2012). “Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas”. New York; National Center for
or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] The White House. (2014). One Decade, One Million more STEM Graduates. Available: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/12/18/one-decade-one-million-more-stem- graduates[2] L. L. Bucciarelli, "Designing Engineers," ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.[3] National Research Council, Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century. The National Academies Press, 2005.[4] National Academy of Engineering, "Educating Engineers: Preparing 21st Century Leaders in the Context of New Modes of Learning: Summary of a Forum," Washington
asshe reflects on her time at Cal Poly, SLO. "I serve because apathy to issues of racism, poverty, sexism, transphobia, and xenophobia perpetuates them. I serve to fight for everyone's right to pursue an education. I serve to empower the most vulnerable communities in our country. I serve because the fight for justice never ends." [11].ConclusionThe connection between the S-STEM PEEPS grant and the CSU STEM AmeriCorps VISTA hasbeen mutually beneficial. The volunteers who participated contributed to the PEEPS programand the VISTAs themselves also benefits by learning about higher education and their ownpassions in a deep way.We urge other grantees to explore the possibilities at your site for this amazing resource
test for reliability and validity.AcknowledgementsThe authors are very grateful for the interest and participation in our work from so manymembers of our School community – students, staff, and faculty. We also acknowledge thesupport provided by the National Science Foundation through grant EEC 1519467. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] M. Koretsky, M. Bothwell, S.B. Nolen, D. Montfort and J. Sweeney. “Shifting departmental culture to re-situate learning.” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. New Orleans, LA, 2016, 10.18260/p.26183.[2] J
, closeattention should be paid to which resources are being used the most to ensure that resources donot run out and equipment is always in operating condition. Having a staff that is knowledgeablein what the makerspace has to offer can ensure that the space remains operable, and thereforaccessible. Lastly, keep in mind that the needs of the students may change, and the makerspaceneeds to be prepared to adapt in order to survive 5.AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by the National Science Foundation through Award No. DUE 1431721,1432107 and 1431923. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedin this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NationalScience Foundation.References1. Barrett, T
performance. This IR report has been renamed from “Student Success Engineering” to “Students Attending Success Center Sites” to reflect adaption by other academic units on campus, including the tutoring centers of Mathematics, Physics and Statistics; and the Bronco Study Zone. Our STEP project has benefited from this collaboration because we can now see if CEAS students use any of the student success sites across campus, not just those offered by CEAS-STEP. Our academic advisors and faculty mentors can also view data via the tracking website, which helps when meeting with students who may be struggling academically.G. Maintain Regular Communication with Campus Collaborators – It is sometimes easy to stay out of contact with
. The physical system is successfullyimplemented and tested with entry-level Intel and Xilinx prototyping boards.7. Acknowledgments Part of this material is based upon work supported by the IUSE program of the Division ofUndergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 504030. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Thephotos in Figure 3(a) and Figure 3(b) are courtesy of Intel and Xilinx, respectively.Figure 3. FPGA prototyping boardsReferences[1]. Altera, Avalon Interface Specifications, Intel Corp., 2017.[2]. Altera, MAX10 FPGA User Guides, Intel Corp., 2017.[3]. Altera
research is needed.AcknowledgementsThe authors thank the reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. We would also liketo gratefully acknowledge the NSF for their financial support (through the DUE-1744407 grant).Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are thoseof the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSFhas not approved or endorsed its content.References[1] S. Freeman et al., “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics,” PNAS, vol. 111, no. 23, pp. 8410-8415, June 10, 2014.[2] M. H. Dancy and C. Henderson, “Experiences of new faculty implementing research-based instructional strategies,” AIP
Paper ID #21689Enhancing Core Chemical Engineering Courses with Computationally-IntenseCourse ModulesDr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in engineer- ing, teaching design and engineering economics, and assessment of student
cohorts of 15 to 16 students.Student progress was monitored during Fall 2016, and in preparation for a less successfulsemester, a new activity was introduced for winter break 2016–17. SESMC purchased the bookMindset: the New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck [1]. This book was assigned asreading over the winter break and was the primary topic of discussion at the Spring 2017orientation meeting. The intent was to provide students with perspective when met with newchallenges, and tools to deal with them. Some key takeaways that students received from readingMindset and from the subsequent group discussions: “Failing is not a reflection of my self-worth, it is merely an opportunity for improvement.” “After reading this book I spent