enrollment persistence, and growth rate are key challenges thatmost universities face now and probably in the upcoming year. Every 1% growth in enrollmentequals over $1 M, and every 1% growth in persistence equals nearly $1.2 M for our university.Hence, to assist the university in addressing the retention issue, the need to find the most vulnerablegroup/s and address their challenges is inevitable.Active Minds surveyed 2,086 college students in April 2020 and found out that 63% of studentshave difficulty staying connected with others during the pandemic [15]. The results of the literaturereview show that students are missing togetherness, and keeping them connected with theuniversity is one of the most challenging goals to achieve. This
- stories-from-25-entrepreneurial-founders/ Microsoft Alumni Startup Stories https://www.microsoftalumni.com/s/1769/19/interior. aspx?pgid=1969&gid=2&cid=8024 Table 2. Lean Launchpad Video Links Material URL Planning Customer Discovery – Part 1 https://vimeo.com/groups/204136/videos/75308828 Planning Customer Discovery – Part 2 http://vimeo.com/groups/204136/videos/75184102 Planning Customer Discovery – Part 3 http://vimeo.com/groups/204136/videos/75603393 Interviews – Part 1 http://vimeo.com/groups/204136/videos/75535337 Interviews – Part 2 http://vimeo.com/groups/204136/videos/76172223 Interviews
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," International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, vol. 30, no. 8, pp. 711-727, 2017.[6] W. Robinson, E. McGee, L. Bentley, S. Houston II and P. Botchway, "Addressing Negative Racial and Gendered Experiences That Discourage Academic Careers in Engineering," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 29-39, 2016.[7] RWU, "Roger Williams University: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion," [Online]. Available: https://www.rwu.edu/who-we-are/diversity-equity-inclusion. [Accessed 21 12 2020].[8] S. Clark, F. Palis, G. Trompf, T. Terway and R. Wallace, "Interdisciplinary problem framing for sustainability: Challenges, a framework, case studies," Journal of Sustainable Forestry, vol. 36, no. 5, p
classified into subcategoriesidentified as “strengths,” “areas for improvement,” and “suggestions for improvement”. Thisframework allowed us to organize the 420 disparate comments into categories that could then beused to provide specific and actionable feedback to faculty with the goal of improving the qualityof teaching and student learning. Similar comments were combined and paraphrased to capturethe gist of the comment(s). Comments and groupings are presented below.Structured Organization Strengths Synchronous lectures, also recorded and posted - easier to keep up with material. Office hours Organized Canvas (weekly plan as well as assignments and materials posted) Class notes posted Asynchronous (pre-recorded lecture
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thathave to be mobilized at the start of PBL. At the start of learning in PBL is the selection of realproblem(s). This is, in fact, the major driving force for learning. Effort and time dedicated to theselection of problem(s) is time well-spent and will eventually pay off. The problem(s) should bewell crafted to engage and immerse students in learning new materials, as well as challengingexisting knowledge, skills, and attitude. It is important to note that PBL is not only about givingproblems and solving them in classroom, but it is also about creating opportunities for students toconstruct knowledge through interactions and collaborative inquiry (Allen et al 1996).In PBL, the instructor is primarily a facilitator, whose role is to make the
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AwardNo. EEC-1733636. 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] E. Spingola, “Literature Review on Disability Participation in the Engineering Field Literature Review on Disability Participation in the Engineering Field,” in Proceedings of the 125th Annual American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2018, p. 9.[2] Y. Pearson Weatherton, R. D. Mayes, and C. Villanueva-Perez, “Barriers to Persistence of Engineering Students with Disabilities: A Review of Literature,” in Proceedings of the 124th Annual American Society for Engineering Education Conference
bring up a topic, and he'dspeak about the topic and how knowledgeable he is about the topic, but then he wouldn'tteach us the material that was going to be on the test. We'd just go in there, and he'll showhow cool he is, and then the material that was on the exam wasn't that stuff that he was talkingabout. It was other stuff. So that's what sucked about that. […] So that's what made me hatechemistry.”Alfonso also described pedagogical practices that impacted his trajectory in the program. “Thisis his teaching style and this is how I’m going to learn from this class and then I, like, with[Professor S] I just kept on trying and trying and trying and nothing gave results. Like the firstclass I just kept on getting F’s and F’s and F’s and I just
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needingsignificant and more specialized support, their departments frequently encourage them to seekassistance to increase their teaching skills. For various reasons (research, too many classes, highservice load, etc.), there is a large population of teachers between the groups described abovewho could use help increasing their teaching and communication skills as shown in the middlelevels of the teaching skills hierarchy in Figure 1. This population of teachers may not attendMTEI programming, but will frequently respond well to information tied to their specificcourse(s) that is timely and time efficient to implement. Reaching all faculty, including in thislast group, has guided the design and implementation of the mid-semester course feedbackprogram.MTEI
, civic organization or environmental authority. The practitioner(s) proposesa specific project with relevant work efforts that will complement their real-world assignmentsand can be completed by undergraduate environmental science and engineering capstonestudents. Faculty members work with the practitioner to refine the proposed capstone project tomeet the educational objectives of the capstone course. These mutually beneficial relationshipsresult in positive “community engagement” which is an increasingly important factor touted byuniversities. The positive community engagement aspect of capstone projects is especiallyimportant to state-funded universities for student recruiting, promoting programs to non-localalumni and for interacting with
created a new course number ECE4334 and joined the existing INDE/MECE 4334 capstone design course, required of allstudents in the Departments and Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.This paper describes the changes that have occurred in the new combined courseECE/INDE/MECE 4334, the interdisciplinary capstone course for three departments andprovides a description of projects from spring, 2002. IntroductionThe capstone design course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at theUniversity of Houston has proven to be one of the Department’s most successful courses.In one form or other it has been around since the early 1960’s. It has existed (untilrecently), more or less, in its present
, separating themselves from the situation(s) where the virus waspresent. This may come in the form of switching majors away from science, technology,engineering, and mathematics, to changing departments, universities, or even jobs. To preventthis attrition, ingroup experts and peers inoculate one’s self-concept by creating environmentsthat foster social belonging (Tse, Logel, & Spencer, 2011). In fact, “recruitment and retention ofunderrepresented groups who are newcomers at entry level is closely dependent on the visibility”of ingroup members (Dasgupta, 2011a). A stronger and more stable sense of belonging is onlyone benefit these ‘social vaccines’ can have. Exposure to ingroup experts and peers in high-achievement environments strengthens
those next in line to successfully compete for tenure-track facultylines are not receiving sufficient mentoring, the structural systems of power in higher educationare persisting. If this is the case, the call to action in diversifying the engineering professoriate isgoing unheard.Funding AcknowledgementThis research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Alliances for GraduateEducation and the Professoriate (AGEP; award numbers: 1821298, 1821019, 1821052, and1821008). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations are those of only theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.ReferencesAllen-Ramdial, S.-A. A., & Campbell, A. G. (2014). Reimagining the pipeline: Advancing STEM diversity
Paper ID #32440Gender Differences in Construction Management Students’ Sense of Belong-ingDr. Luciana Debs, Purdue University Programs Luciana Debs, is an Assistant Professor of Construction Management in the School Construction Man- agement Technology at Purdue University. She received her PhD from Purdue University Main Campus, her MS from the Technical Research Institute of Sao Paulo (IPT-SP), and BArch from the University of S˜ao Paulo (USP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prior to her current position she worked in design coordination in construction and real estate development companies in Brazil. Her research is mainly
options: A meta-analytic path analysis of the social-cognitive choice model by gender and race/ethnicity,” Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 17–35, 2018. 2 A. Bandura, “Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change,” Psychological Review, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 191–215, 1977. 3 A. Bandura, “The explanatory and predictive scope of self-efficacy theory,” Journal of Clinical and Social Psychology, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 359–373, 1986. 4 R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, and G. Hackett, “Toward a unifying social cognitive theory of career and academic interest, choice, and performance,” Journal of Vocational Behavior, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 79–122, 1994. 5 H.-B. Sheu, R. W. Lent, M
what you know? Figure 2. Short writing example involving exploration of topics in Physics 230.During the third week of class, students were given a short in-class writing activity in the form ofa classroom assessment technique (CAT) pioneered by Angelo and Cross [22]. Often referred toas a “minute paper” the students were asked two questions which are illustrated in Figure 3. 1. What was the most useful or meaningful thing you learned during our session together today? 2. What question(s) remain uppermost in your mind as we ended the session? Figure 3. Short writing example using a classroom assessment technique (CAT) in Physics 230.The CAT was given anonymously during class and students were given a small
a learning environment in STEMeducation [1], but less is known about conducting engineering design challenge activities inhome environments. Although many studies highlight the development of STEM concepts andskills, more research is needed to understand how to support this development through caregiver-child interactions at home. This study aims to (a) investigate caregiver-child interactions thatsupport the development of child(ren)’s STEM conceptualizations and skills in engineeringdesign challenge activities within family pedagogical practices, and (b) examine caregivers’pedagogical expectations within family pedagogy. Guided by Vygotsky’s cultural-historicalview, the authors analyze child(ren)’s development of STEM conceptualizations
value system with their definitions in terms ofmotivational goal(s) [3, p.7]:Values Conceptual definitions in terms of motivational goalsSelf-direction – Freedom to cultivate one’s own ideas and abilitiesthoughtSelf-direction – action Freedom to determine one’s own actionsStimulation Excitement, novelty, and changeHedonism Pleasure and sensuous gratificationAchievement Success according to social standardsPower – dominance Power through exercising control over peoplePower – resources Power through control of material and social resourcesFace Security and power through maintaining one’s public image and
grading platform (Marmoset), which is capable of doing functional assessment ofstudent code, but not an assessment of style, nor of design. The shift to automatic grading for onequestion also necessitated that the question had to be highly structured, though the otherquestion(s) were similar to past years. All of the assignment questions required coding in C++.2.2.3 MTE121 Course ProjectThe course project in 2019 was to design and implement a mechatronic/robot system of thestudents’ choosing, while meeting a set of given specifications for the mechanical system(number of sensors and motors) and the software (number of functions); taking place over thelast 5 weeks of the term. Students, in groups of three or four had the freedom to choose their
of degrees compared to the number ofindustry jobs (i.e., involving the design, manufacturing, regulation, and sale of products andservices in the biomedical sector) available for biomedical engineers in the 1970’s and 1980’s[9]. However, as more programs have developed and the number of graduates has increased, theratio of graduates to the number of industry job openings has become less promising [6]. Further,research on student job placement shows that the history of BME program development asintentionally broad and unique to each institution’s faculty strengths [9], may have had anegative impact on industry’s perceptions of BME graduates, limiting BME student industrycareer placement upon graduation [5], [9], [11], [12]. These studies
Paper ID #32834Emergency Transition of Intro Communication and Design Course to RemoteTeachingMr. Clay Swackhamer, University of California, Davis Clay is a PhD candidate at UC Davis working under the supervision of Dr. Gail M. Bornhorst in the department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. His research focuses on the breakdown of solid foods during gastric digestion and the development of improved in vitro models for studying digestion.Dr. Jennifer Mullin, University of California, Davis Jennifer S. Mullin is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. She has a
. Another page of the survey asked students to select one or two nouns(among 14 options) that best describe the nature of the role they took in the context of the team.Nouns connoted various conceptions of leadership (e.g., Director, Sheriff), fellowship (e.g.,Therapist, Referee), and followship (e.g., Assistant, Secretary).Part 4. Explain Choices. The final page required participants to offer some explanation orclarification of their previous responses by answering at least one of two prompts: (a) “How didYOU decide how much individual effort to invest in each design task?” (b) “What other verb(s)or noun(s) describe how YOU contributed to the design project and functioned within yourTEAM? Why?”AnalysisThe WTCS data were analyzed using quantitative
outcomes, and interpersonal outcomes. Empathic processesresemble the skills dimension of Walther et al.’s [6] model of empathy in engineering andmanifest through perspective-taking, self/other awareness, and related skills. As this modelemphasizes, however, one’s orientation to others and one’s behavioral dispositions also play akey role in determining whether one will empathize. Thus, as one example, numerous factorsinfluence ‘team member understanding.’ Moreover, as Davis’s model emphasizes, this type ofintrapersonal understanding can promote interpersonal action or behavior.Second, empathy can promote positive teaming environments. Such positive teamingenvironments may be evident through a lack of negative valences, such as limited frustration
completed several instruments that helped you learn more about yourself, including the MBTI, Kolb Learning Styles, Strength-Finders, Emotional Intelligence, Etc. How important were the results of that learning about self to your leadership development? 8 Regarding the self-assessment instruments above, indicate the impact on you during the course. If one or more of these has had an impact in your life, please identify the instrument(s): MBTI, Kolb Learning Styles, Strengths-Finder Assessment (or equivalent), Emotional Intelligence (EQ) in Actin Profile or other (specify), and what was that impact? 9 You also completed a 360-degree instrument (Zenger-Folkman 360