the details about each WiC initiative are as follows.1) Maintaining the Supporting Women in Computing (SWiC) student club: SWiC was first launched in 2014. From 2014-2020, the club was inconsistently active as an option to students at FSC. It was officially re-instantiated in the fall 2020 semester during the COVID19 global pandemic. Finding student leaders with the time and commitment to participate in leadership training, complete administrative club paperwork each semester, and plan, organize, and host club activities at FSC has been a challenge [19]. As stated earlier, FSC serves primarily commuter students with considerable outside of school commitments (e.g. part- or full-time employment and familial responsibilities
scientific research abilities, which are critical for their respective future careers.Engineering education is no exception to this academic requirement [1]. The employability ofengineering students today depends on more than just using their technical abilities; in order toeven secure part-time employment and progress in their careers, they also require complementaryprofessional abilities or soft skills [2], [3], [4]. These professional skills include the capacity forinitiative, teamwork, communication, planning and organization, and commercial acumen [5], [6],[7]. Professionals believe that communication skills are one of the most important skills requiredfor employability [8].Writing and more specifically academic writing and communication is an
advertising, andcreating a multicultural campus atmosphere. While precise recruitment techniques differ in eachcountry, such as using fairs, offering incentives, and emphasizing local program characteristics,the underlying strategies remain consistent [3]. These initiatives include focusing on foreignstudent outreach and creating marketing materials that highlight the university's specialty areas.Emerging institutions that want to improve their foreign student recruitment efforts might benefitgreatly from including these key elements in their recruitment plans [4]. This approach not onlyhelps to attract a diverse student body but also helps to create an inclusive environment thatappeals to overseas students.The responsibility of recruitment agents is
, performance measurement, compensation, workforce planning, and retention.Analytics tools are also used for real-time correlations between coaching and engagement, as well asfor patterns of time management [8], [9], [10], [11]. Facial scans can be used to detect and analyzeemployee emotions [12].To reemphasize and for context, these applications are all oriented to optimize talent management inorganizations. It is the organization of humans to perform work that results in a valued product orservice for a customer/client/constituent. Over centuries of history, advantage has been gained byusing increasingly sophisticated technology to augment human capabilities. Technology can bothcreate new classes of jobs and eliminate existing classes. Gen AI is one
experience thefeeling of affirming and building upon others and having their own responses be affirmed andbuilt upon. This activity was designed to take roughly 10 minutes. Students were told to workwith their team to plan a vacation. The following instructions were provided for the interventionteams.Work with your team to plan a vacation. This is entirely fictional; there are no limitations onwhat you can do.Round 1: Yes, but (2 minutes) • The team member with the first name alphabetically (by first name) begins. • This person shares an idea for a vacation. • Moving clockwise, the next team member responds “Yes, but…” and replies to the previous person. • Continue moving clockwise and having each team member respond “Yes, but…” for a
command line tools. Specifically, such experience could potentially improve thestudents’ performance and possible dispositions toward command line programming over time asseen with the OOP students.To expand upon this study, it is the plan to incorporate interviews at the end of the semester. Thisfuture work will allow the ability to further gauge the students’ experience and perceptionstoward command line programming upon completing either their CS2 or OOP course. Anotherfuture work would be to align the second PCR assessment with the first by assigning certaintools for the students to use rather than giving them the option to choose their preferred tool. Thiswould allow an additional collection point at the end of the semester to further gauge
term for “African-Centered Teaching Strategies” is sebayt, which means pedagogy in AncientEgyptian (Bailey et al. (n.d)).3 Another term for “African-Centered Curriculum” is sebayt sekher, which means a plan or course ofaction in Ancient Egyptian (Bailey et al. (n.d)).UTILIZING AFRICAN-CENTERED STEM EDUCATION TO INSPIRE 3disciplines as tools to be utilized to create, develop, and implement solutions and initiatives that honortheir past, shift the paradigm of their present, and engages students in the possibilities of the future from aholistically empowered perspective. The Uhuru Academy in partnership with Conscious Ingenuity created the Uhuru AcademyConscious Ingenuity (UACI) Summer STEM Camp to
areas.Prof. Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University Nathan Mentzer is a professor in the Purdue Polytechnic with a joint appointment in the College of Education at Purdue University. Hired as a part of the strategic P12 STEM initiative, he prepares Technology and Engineering teachers for state certification.Ms. Adrie Koehler Doctoral Student, Learning Design & TechnologyElnara Mammadova, Purdue University Elnara’s research is centered on advancing inclusivity for students with disabilities in STEM education by developing curriculum and lesson plans in higher education. Her objective is to establish a data-driven proactive approach to improve the digital accessibility of educational materials and course syllabi. Leveraging
in solving mental rotation problems grew significantly. This papershared detailed results, implications, as well as curricular plans. 21. Introduction1.1 BackgroundSpatial thinking refers to a set of mental skills that allow us to understand the position of objectsand how the objects relate to each other [5] [7]. These skills are required for STEM-relatedcareers, ranging from engineers visualizing how components are assembled, how a circuitdiagram can be represented on a circuit board, scientists visualizing molecular structures, andcomputer programmers visualizing the structure of the code they are writing. Studies from thepast six decades
, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives. 6. An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions. 7. An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Table 1 illustrates the relationship between the program’s educational objectives and studentoutcomes. As presented next, each student outcome is mapped to multiple education objectives. Table 1. Relation between PEOs and SOs. PEO 1 PEO 2 PEO 3 PEO 4 SO 1 x x SO 2 x x
Engineering and Management from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), and B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. His current teaching and research interests include project planning and controls, quantitative methods in construction, and resilient and sustainable built environment.Dr. Zofia Kristina Rybkowski, Texas A&M University Zofia K. Rybkowski, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Construction Science of the School of Architecture at Texas A&M University. She holds degrees from Stanford, Brown, Harvard, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and UC Berkeley, where she earned a PhD. Her interdisciplinary background, which includes biology (MS
tocore employment sectors in the United States (US) [1, 2]. In December 2018, the NationalScience and Technology Council (NSTC) Committee on STEM Education released “Charting aCourse for Success: America’s Strategy for STEM Education”, a five-year STEM educationstrategic plan [3]. America’s Strategy places particular emphasis on preparing the STEMworkforce for future challenges by aiming to improve K-12 education. To fulfill the goal set byAmerica's Strategy, the education of the younger generation should be enriched by integratingadvanced technological tools, forging community partnerships, and embracing globalperspectives through a transdisciplinary approach. Tremendous efforts have been dedicated bythe US government, private foundations, and
. However, learning experiences and external factors, such as background, race, andgender, also affect self-efficacy. The SCCT has models including the interest, choice, and self-management models,and the “the self-management model emphasizes the factors that lead people to enact behaviors that aid their owneducational and occupational progress (e.g., planning, information-gathering, deciding, goal-setting, job-finding,self-asserting, preparing for change, negotiating transitions) beyond field or job selection alone” [9, pp. 558].General self-efficacy refers to our beliefs about our ability to attain positive outcomes and meet our goals.According to psychologist Albert Bandura [10] the first proponent of the concept, self-efficacy is the product of
EmPOWERment Program to be an external mentor.2.7 Advising and Mentoring (A&M) In addition to their primary Ph.D. advisor, and their external mentor, each trainee in the OhioState EmPOWERment Program has another mentor internal to the university. This internalmentor can be a faculty member or have a role in research, but they do not have to be involvedwith research or teaching at this university. This internal mentor can be a source of support tothe trainee as the trainee navigates their Ph.D. degree and their participation in the Ohio StateEmPOWERment Program.2.8 Individual Development Plan (IDP) and a Participation Agreement (PA) Each trainee in the Ohio State EmPOWERment Program completes an IndividualDevelopment Plan (IDP) and a
services by providing real-time bus arrivals and buscapacity and accepting rider’s feedback [11].2. Background on SmartSATSmartSAT (Smart San Antonio Transit) project has been developing a customizable mobile appfor the San Antonio (SA) Metropolitan Public Transit to explore the above challenges on thecritical services needed in the SA community. The project is designed to build and test a platformthat easily adapts to the changes in functional requirements and plans for expansion and long-termgoals. It intends to provide compatibility with other programs and devices by building anapplication infrastructure on the cloud. Through this development and testing, one of our goals isto investigate the rider’s satisfaction and quality of ridership
I can solve most of the problems I face if I have sufficient amount of time and if I show effort CR4 I have a belief that I can solve the problems possible to occur when I encounter with a new situation CR5 I trust I can apply the plan while making it to solve a problem of mine CR6 Dreaming causes my most important project to come to light CR7 I trust my intuitions and feelings of “trueness” and “wrongness” when I approach the solution of a problem CR8 When I encounter with a problem, I stop before proceeding to another subject and think over that problem 2. Algorithmic Thinking AT9 I can immediately establish the equity that will
also must developyield strength rapidly to maintain the extruded shape. This challenge also allows students topractice designing experimental testing plans. Another challenge is that printed structures do nothave to conform to typical prismatic members. Material placement can be optimized to reduceself-weight and material usage. Finally, this technology is relatively new to the civil engineeringdiscipline, but they are likely to encounter it in their future careers. Students must interact withrobotics and machine coding to generate a printed structure. Despite these unique opportunities,3D printing concrete in a civil engineering course is not well-documented [8]. This work servesto provide an example of using 3D printed concrete in an
planning the course session(s). Instructors were notcompensated for responding to the questionnaire, which we estimated to take less than 15minutes to complete.In total, we contacted 40 instructors across 27 courses. Of those, 26 distinct instructorsresponded from all 27 courses, with two instructors responding for multiple courseimplementations. These courses in which C-SED content was implemented in the past termincluded ten 100 level courses, nine 200 or 300 level courses, six 400 level courses, and twograduate courses that included design, professional skill development, and engineering sciencecourses. Twenty of the courses included only a single case study or design skill training, butseven courses included two to four C-SED sessions which
a degree in a new manufacturing-related college major at a Midwestern university.The authors collected data from different sources, such as the Society of WomenEngineers (SWE) website [17], different professional education websites of the topengineering universities in the United States, and others. The authors worked with theleadership from the Midwestern university’s academia-industry collaboration center andselect manufacturing industry stakeholders to collect additional data. The activities can bedeployed in the select local high school classrooms.Select Experiences of Authors to Support Work and other ConsiderationsDesigning and implementing effective outreach activities is a multifaceted endeavor thatrequires careful planning and
in Section 1 but didnot impact the broader range of topics covered in other sections. The reasons could be that asemester long course is not adequate to significantly change attitudes or career plans of thispopulation, although additional reasons for this could be manifold and warrant furtherinvestigation to understand the differential impacts of the intervention on various aspects ofstudents' learning and attitudes towards sustainability and renewable energy. The results presentedhere represent the preliminary findings from the initial year of a longitudinal study stretching overa three-year period. This first phase, encompassing data from Fall 2021 through Spring 2022,offers an early glimpse into the evolving understanding and perspectives
include using ChatGPT to write a first draft of a summary, asking for asuggestion of circuit components, and interactive learning. On a larger scale the use of the toolshas received media attention, e.g. [7]. In other words, many engineers have tried AI, they likedwhat it can do, and they plan to use it more. The proverbial genie is out of the bottle.At [University] we have programs in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, as well asEngineering Technology programs in similar disciplines. Each program has the standardtechnical core required for their disciplines. However, we add a number of multidisciplinaryProject Based Learning (PBL) courses to prepare students for industry [8]. There are also anumber of courses, such as programming, that mix
by the cylinder on the load cell in the fully-opened position. Confirm with an experiment. 2. Calculate the pressure needed in the cylinder when it reaches 30 degrees to allow this mechanism to rise on its own. Confirm with an experiment. Meets Expectations Developing Performance Indicators 2 1 Develops experimentation Experimental plan includes ways Creates a reasonable Creates effective experimental plan to verify measurements experimental plan Analyzes data Calculations are correct or Calculations contain significant
are important for assessing students’ achievements in an educationalprogram. These are strategic tracks that outline students’ journeys through an entire program inthe context of developing a specified competency or knowledge base [15]. A learningprogression framework presents a broad description of essential content and general sequencingfor student learning and skill development [16]. Given the characteristics of the HCEDframework, we argue that it can assist educators in planning and building curriculum maps thatcan be used to identify learning progressions [17] for engineering students to develop human-centered engineering design knowledge, skills, and mindsets.Literature has defined the value of learning progressions in K–12 science and
networking opportunities and global awareness.Suggestions were made to address these shortcomings.This study offers practical insights for advancing engineering education through innovativeinfrastructure and serves as a reference case for planning, executing, and managing similarinitiatives in higher education institutions.Keywords Innovation center, student-centered approachIntroductionIn 2016, the engineering faculty at the University of Hong Kong initiated the Tam Wing FanInnovation Wing (a.k.a. the HKU Inno Wing) project with the goal of establishing and operatingan innovation center at a prominent location on campus. The primary educational objective of theInno Wing is to empower students, allowing them to unleash their creative potential
—Blacks received a low percentage of degrees across the board. With Figure 3 genderdisparities are further analyzed. Figure 3 displays data from the electrical engineering (EE)departments at Morgan State University (MSU), Texas Southern University (TSU), JacksonState University (JSU), and North Carolina A&T (NC A&T) that reveals the gender gap in theelectrical engineering discipline. The demographic data depicted in this graph was retrievedfrom the Offices of Institutional Research at NC A & T, MSU, and JSU and the from the Officeof Institutional Assessment, Planning and Effectiveness at TSU. The graph conveys thisdisparity through the enrollment numbers for each gender. NC A&T has a sizable number of EEstudents, 166; however, the
has conducted a self-assessment of its policies andpractices related to hiring, onboarding, retention, and advancement. Using these self-assessments,they have also developed or are in the process of developing action plans to make changes to theircampus policies and practices that are expected to improve the potential for increasing the 4representation of women from URM backgrounds in their engineering professoriates andimproving equity for women faculty from URM backgrounds and FB/FT women faculty.Mentoring Events: From Spring 2022 to Spring 2024, the mentoring program has organizedseven two-hour speed mentoring events, one each semester, providing
because, without it, one user mostly does the code by themselves.The Live Share extension [41] enables students to share screens and collaborate with classmates,TAs, and instructors on the same code without the need to synchronize code or configure thesame development tools, settings, or environment. This ability to work together andindependently provides a collaboration experience that closely resembles in-person collaboration[16]. We plan to enable Live Share for classroom lectures (in read-only mode) and remote officehours in Fall 2024. The use of Live Share in pair programming is still under evaluation andconsideration.To summarize, students' overall experience with VS Code and the VS Code guidance is positiveand encouraging. This
execute an effective communication plan as well aswhen there is a mismatch of the project expectations [6]. Therefore, allowing students tonegotiate sections of the project can dynamically create value for the client, leading to a betterlearning experience than approaching capstone projects as static problems to be solved [6].Detailed project planning is required to minimize frustrations in undergraduate engineeringtechnology capstone courses. Mosher (2015) explains that project stakeholders must be flexibleand tolerate ambiguity. Also, students must have a voice in team and project selection [7].Viswanathan (2017) observed that a meticulous project plan and execution are ingredients forsuccessful capstone courses [8]. Hauhart and Grahe (2014
overburden marginalized students and needing to have theirinvolvement according to the principles of community engagement. Advancing equity workregularly comes at the expense of graduate students themselves, especially those that come frommarginalized communities. Equity work and the emotional burdens produced by doing said workoften go unnoticed and uncompensated within academia. The purpose of this paper is to presentthe initial plans for exploring how to shift more power to graduate students through communityengagement so that graduate students will have a voice within PROTEGE.IntroductionAs part of a broader effort to diversify engineering education, greater attention has been puttowards improving the experiences of people from marginalized
major after Fall2023 and was first taught in Spring 2024. The class is taught synchronously and in-person, withoccasional guest lectures from industry as relevant to the content.Course DesignCIVE 202 was designed in the Fall 2023 semester through a UNL workshop entitled “Learning byDesign” presented by the Engineering and Computing Education Core. The workshop focused onbackwards design principles [12] and was attended by one of the professors for the Spring 2024 CIVE202 course. The Learning by Design workshop focused on three key steps in backwards design: (1)identify the desired results, (2) determine acceptable evidence, and (4) plan learning experienced andinstruction, using concepts from “Understanding by Design” [12]. Over the course of