amanner that the grades themselves will reflect the students’ mastery of the learning objectivesand that higher levels of collaboration during study can be encouraged.The second-chance examThe second-chance exam varies in two aspects from the first-try exam. Of the nine questions,typically two of them will pivot upon one learning objective or shift to an entirely differentlearning objective within the material to be assessed. Also, in the second-chance exam, the helpsheet is removed as a crutch. Students are asked to depend upon memory through practice for therecollection of basic circuit formulae. The remaining seven questions continue the samerandomization procedures as in the first-try exam. In the fall of 2019, each midterm exam wasfollowed
help students to bettercomprehend engineering problems. To evaluate this hypothesis, a few visualization methodswere implemented in the flipped classroom including:a) Instructor built simple foam models to show design details and potential loadings and stresses.Figure 1 shows sample foam models used in Mechanics of Materials course. The instructordisplays and interacts with the foam models during lectures to visually show deformation andfailure modes. More than 80% of students reflected in SET data that these foam models veryhelpful in their learning. However, they suggested that letting them to interact with the modelswill be more beneficial. (a) (b) Figure 1. Foam models to
-quality interactions and higher scores in this study could have beeninfluenced or caused by other variables beyond our control; more controlled studies are neededto validate these findings.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1628976. Anyopinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] D.H. Jonassen, and W. Hung, “All problems are not equal: implications for problem-based learning,” Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 6-28, 2008.[2] D.H. Jonassen, “Instructional Design Models for Well
ofteam 6 shared responsibility on the project and each made a substantive contribution to theoutcome: “Each member knew the assigned content assigned to him/her and I couldn't be morethrilled about how the delivery went.” Another example is team 11. One member wrote: “Ourteam members are not afraid to bring up ideas and or concerns during the project period. Wewere able to compromise on conflicts.”Teams in Group 2 evidenced weak TD and low IE. Teams 4, 5 and 7 fit into this category.Survey comments from this group reflected persistent challenges with Team Dynamics: “We hadone team member that didn't do too much and what he did do was last minute. That was a bitdifficult to work around,” and “We all did well when we worked together, but it was
satisfaction among ECE faculty.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) underaward EEC-1623125. 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 NSF. References[1] M. F. Fox, “Women and Men Faculty in Academic Science and Engineering: Social- Organizational Indicators and Implications,” American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 53, no. 7, 2010, pp. 997–1012.[2] E. A. Frickey and L. M. Larson, L. M. “A closer examination of Engineering Department culture: Identifying supports and barriers.” Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American
a priority forimplementing the B&R which need PCEE to give assistance.Universities have richexperience and activity forms at PCEE, which can help enterprises to carry out PCEE andultimately promote B&R construction. Therefore, the successful university-industrycollaboration participating in the PCEE of B&R should be reflected in four factors:professional knowledge training, cultural exchange & transmission, International studenteducation and joint research. Only to achieve the above four points can it be said to besuccessful.But all things are difficult before they are easy. At first, enterprises did not realizethat universities could help. Few enterprises took the initiative to seek cooperation withuniversities, and
ceiling for each one. The trip also provided experience intransportation over a vast expanse of water - many of them for the first time. Apart from theinformation provided before each field trip, an official from each organization was contacted tospeak to the students and to provide a guided tour of the facilities. After each field trip, there wasa reflection session were the students discussed their experiences and the lessons learnt. Figure 6shows students in a field Trip to the Cape May Ferry and the Wildwood Aviation MuseumFigure 6 Students on the Cape May Ferry (L) and in the Wildwood Aviation Museum (R)Questionnaires and Exit SurveysThere were Questionnaires completed by the students every week on the activities of the Instituteon each
(14.0%). These authorship trends may have reflected the nature of the type of materialavailable outside of academia. For example, information on websites introducing aerodynamicprinciples tended to come from anonymous or layman authorship. Websites covering the topicsof convection and truck aerodynamics were far less common. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 3A: Anonymous Authorship 3B: Layman 3C: Corporate Authorship 3D: Professional Amateur 3E: Applied Professional 3F: Academic Professional 3Z: Source Unknown Convection Airfoil TruckFigure 6. Breakdown of Facet 3: Author Identity by report.The results for Facet 4
and potential consequence levels for the environmental-type incidents reported.defined the level: “Equipment completely destroyed”. When writing the consequence definitions,the authors had envisioned that the incident report would refer primarily to the unit operationequipment (e.g., distillation column, dryer, or pump), not to what one might consider basiclaboratory supplies. Therefore, although the student categorization of broken glassware as“Catastrophic” is technically accurate for one minor piece of experimental equipment, it was notreflective of a true catastrophic incident for the experimental process. These consequencedefinitions will likely be revised for the next iteration of data collection to better reflect that
students relate to each course's learning outcomes. Theinstructors must dedicate time to planning the logistics, aligning the syllabi, and homeworkprojects. Any overlap between courses reflects real life, so faculty must embrace how thoseoverlaps can be utilized to correlate Social Media homework for the benefit of the students. Amajor concern was that one student was registered for two of the courses at the same time, yetthe faculty decided to ask the student to conduct each course's deliverable separately.Integrating such innovative technological tools that are engaging to learners not only creates asense of appreciation and belonging but also provide real connections to the world. Minoritystudents who are less aware of issues in the U.S
improvements to first-year experiences. One example skill category thatemerged in each class standing category was teamwork skills. Students who participated in thissurvey after taking the course found skills related to teamwork as useful. The skills developedfrom working in a team are an important outcome of first-year design experiences. We found thatas students reflected on the course with more time removed from taking the course theyidentified different aspects of teamwork as useful. For example, freshmen included timemanagement, sophomores highlighted the interdisciplinary nature of working in a team, andjuniors liked how the team project simulated real-life work experience. The multiple perspectivesimply that the team-based component of the
section that claimed the civil-version “did not teach as much basic math and science for their discipline area”.The instructors plan to teach at least one more semester with the discipline-specific version to gather moredata on the student engagement responses. Two years after each version were given, the instructors intendadminister the same survey to the same students in order to determine if the students in reflection felt theirversion of the introduction course was helpful for them to progress in their respective program choice.AcknowledgementsThe author would like to acknowledge the Utah Valley University’s Office of Engaged Learning forfunding the project.References[1] R. Adams et al., “Multiple Perspectives on Engaging Future Engineers
Engineering Education, 2020Virginia Digital Shipbuilding Program (VDSP) – Building an agile modern workforce to improveperformance in the shipbuilding and ship repair industryAuthors: Joseph Kosteczko; Katherine Smith; Jessica Johnson; Rafael Diaz, Ph. DSubmitted to: MILITARY AND VETERANS DIVISION (MVD)AbstractIndustry 4.0 is the latest stage in the Industrial Revolution and is reflected in the digitaltransformation and use of emergent technologies including the Internet of Things, Big Data,Robotic automation of processes, 3D printing and additive manufacturing, drones and ArtificialIntelligence (AI) in the manufacturing industry [15]. The implementation of these technologiesin the Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Industry is currently in a nascent stage
demonstrate effective oral communication of technical content. A lecture focusing on effective oral presentation techniques was presented to demonstrate effective oral presentations. Students presented their IOP in the class [8]. • Writing Assignments: Writing assignments (WAs) were chosen as an assessment method to demonstrate students’ improvements in technical writing. Individual writing assignments included topics ranging from “Explain how something works” to “Reflect on your speaking skills”. Specific content was not as important as demonstrating mastery of writing skills. For example, the first writing assignment was: Understand the roles of engineers in different fields and different industries in
to Engineering I course, students complete the “Becoming a World-ClassEngineering Student” [7] self-assessment paper individually. We begin with this paper since itrequires students simply to write about themselves and how they believe their first semester wentas an engineering major. The faculty feel this paper is a good way to introduce writing into theengineering curriculum as it is a reflection paper on topics that were discussed in classthroughout the semester. Students are required to follow specific length and spacing guidelines,but otherwise they are free to construct the paper as they seem fit. The paper guidelines, rubric,example, and template are all provided early in the semester so students may begin at any time.About two weeks
of experiences and theopportunities for reflection on those experiences. Previous studies on Black women inengineering industry, although few, have often focused on women with more extensiveexperiences (ten years or more).We also note that the smallness of the sample is an indicator of earlier barriers to entry intoengineering and graduation rates that must be addressed if more Black women are to enter theworkforce. Out of over 3,500 survey participants, only ten were Black women (less than 0.3% ofthe sample). These numbers indicate the challenges of studying this group as well as future workthat must be done to open pathways. All of the participants were from the same institution, alarge predominantly white institution (PWI). These Black
mapping. Science, 331, p 772-775.[10] G.D, Kuh, J. Kinzie, J.H. Schuh, E.J. Whitt, 2005. Student success in college. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass. p 193.[11] M.C. Lovett. “Using Reflection and Metacognition to Improve Student Learning”, 2013. Stylus Publishing. p 23.[12] S. A. Ambrose, M. W. Bridges, M. DiPietro, M. C. Lovett, M.C., M. K. Norman, 2010. How Do Students Become Self‐directed Learners? In: How Learning Works: Seven Research‐based Principles for Smart Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass. p 188– 216.[13] J. Metcalfe. “Learning from Errors”. The Annual Review of Psychology. 2017. 68:465-89.[14] H. Haron and A.M. Shaharon. “The Pedagogical Issues in Engineering Statics”. In Proceedings of the International Conference of
reflect the self-regulative learning experiences oflearners.The MSLQ in the Freeform context In 2008, an active, blended, and collaborative (ABC) teaching and learning environmentfor a core engineering science course (Dynamics), named Freeform, was developed and adoptedby a team of mechanics instructors [28]. With the goal of a student-centered classroom, Freeformtransformed a lecture-based pedagogical environment to a highly-networked pedagogicalenvironment. The hybrid nature of course resources (i.e., instructor-produced videos, hybridtextbooks which combined a traditional textbook and significant white space for note taking, anda course blog) allowed the students to actively, collaboratively engage in the class and managemultiple
-sponsoredCenter for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR). This studyuses a Delphi methodology, which is a systematic solicitation and collection of feedback from apool of experts (approximately 10-30) on a particular topic through a set of carefully designedsequential surveys. In between survey collection rounds, data are synthesized, summarized, andpresented back to the experts for reflection and group consensus building. Once consensus for thisstudy is reached, the list of skills and competencies will be used in the center’s graduate courses,summer programs (e.g., Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Research Experiences forTeachers), and K-12 outreach efforts.MotivationChemical engineering evolved in the early to
, and WE Engage! in 2019, were developed to complement existingfreshmen student support programs, with a focus on specific target populations whose numbershave been historically low relative to the larger university population and surrounding areas.Engage ME! is a diversity and inclusion program developed to recruit, retain, and graduatemulticultural COE students. While open to all students, Engage ME! emphasizes engagementwith African American, Hispanic/Latino and Native American students for personal, academic,and professional development. Although the UNC Charlotte student body reflects the diversity ofour community, the same cannot be said for the COE. Underrepresented students from ethnicand racial minorities account for 41% of the
time, the time of day the lecture is offered,and the switch to a different open response system might have all contributed to an increase inknowledge gain. In addition, the instructor was more experienced with the implementation ofthe pedagogy.EML activities are going to continue to be drafted, improved, and implemented into othersections of the course. This includes topics such as transmission line theory, magneto-statics,time-varying fields, plane-wave propagation, and wave reflection and transmission. The authoris not aware of a concept inventory that can be applied to measure knowledge gain in the areasrelevant to engineering electromagnetics. The CUE-CMR does facilitate the measuring ofknowledge gain in terms of conceptual electrostatics
other cases, the complexinterplay between these two factors is completely ignored [22].Lastly, the subjectivity of those scoring the responses plays a large role in the outcome of theresults. As mentioned above, before scoring can take place a categorization process is sometimesnecessary. This is done in order to calculate the flexibility dimension. Scorers judge the meaningor intent of a response based on their understanding, and hence, subjectivity is inherent to theprocess. In this paper, we use the dimensions of originality, flexibility, fluency, and elaboration,as presented by Bayliss [28], as the foundation for our scoring method. We provide details of theproposed scoring method in Section 3, along with a reflection on the problems
important to its members because it has helpedthem fully integrate their multiple identities into their work. The group supports members’identity development, which enhanced their ability to be supportive of LGBTQ+ students.The current study has a few limitations that can be addressed in future work. First, the currentpaper only reports a fraction of the emergent themes. Second, the VCP members interviewed forthe project were self-selected and may not be reflective of STEM faculty not participating in theVCP. In addition, the linguistic and conceptual analysis is not presented here as the interpretationis ongoing and will be deepened in future rounds of analysis. Finally, due to research stafflimitations iterator reliability has not been performed
will use the list of themes and codes developed by Garcia etal.’s (2019) servingness framework as a starting point of a priori codes, while also employingopen coding to identify structural characteristics that are specific to this context and do not fit thelist of codes in Garcia’s study. To identify the cultural characteristics, we will utilize valuecoding, defined by Saldaña (2016) as the application of codes unto data that reflects the values,attitudes, and beliefs about the phenomenon under study [21]. In this case, these codes will applyto the institution’s values, attitudes and beliefs about their role in serving Latinx students. Oncethe structural and cultural characteristics have been identified, we will conduct a second round ofcoding
classes (MTE, ME) received an additional workshop on problem finding. 4. One class (MTE) was required to write a reflection on the field experience. This paper presents the first steps in evaluating the efficacy of the interventions. Toperform this evaluation, two research questions were posed: 1. How do students identify, select, and justify their capstone design project problem statement, and are there structural differences in how students who received the intervention perform this step, versus other students? 2. Were the interventions helpful in teaching students about needs identification? This paper specifically looks at student perceptions of their design methods and thehelpfulness of the interventions. A
addition, the data for number of minutesbetween the first and the last attempt did not reflect a consistent trend of one group taking moretime than the other. It is possible that these results are not the best metric of learning efficiency, Category Solution Explanation Expected This solution represents what we ex- numODD = 0; pected as a solution - a while loop that %Add your while loop here iterates through a range of numbers, n = 1 while n <= 7 checking if the current number is odd if rem(n,2) ˜=0 (and
because they do not knowwhat to do and hesitate to ask. We regularly remind students that one of our responsibilities is tohelp them execute their initiatives to the highest professional level possible. Once theycommunicate their issues with us, we can figure out together how to proceed. This is often adifficult lesson to learn.To help students articulate these lessons learned, the “big picture” outcomes of the course, weend the course with some time for reflection on the process as well as the product. One exercisefor the last day of class is to have students write a “letter to their future self.” In this letter, theyremind themselves of challenges and issues in the course, consider what worked well and whatdid not, and suggest strategies to
practices for evidence-based decision making.8. Establish Standard Intellectual Property AgreementsFinally, the authors feel it would be good practice to have a small number of varying IPagreements for the projects. The length and complexity of these agreements should fit withinpredefined categories reflecting the nature of the project for which they are to be used for. Forinstance, a lengthy convoluted legal document should not be used for small student projects, asthis will turn a lot of prospective parties away from participating. These agreements should alsoaddress FERPA as well, in regards to sharing students project work in the future. Someuniversities have developed brief FERPA waiver forms for students projects.ConclusionIn conclusion
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students (60%). These numbers reflect the typical students in thismajor. Over the past five years, graduates of the program (n=51) have been 92% male, 39%adult learners, and 14% military veterans.We collected multiple sources of evidence for this study including pre- and post- survey data(scaled responses) using a career self-efficacy scale, student artifacts, and formative assessmentquestions. The career self-efficacy scale asked students to assess their confidence on a five-pointscale, and these rating were tested for statistical significance. Student artifacts, includingassignments and projects, were evaluated by two independent raters who used a 4-point scale(ranging from 0 (below) to 3 (exemplary)) across five desired outcomes: description