of the importance of creativity to their professional andleadership development. Then, we explored whether those perceptions could be influenced throughactivity-based learning. Specifically, we embedded creativity concepts and practices within amasters-level engineering course focused on professional and leadership skills at Liverpool JohnMoores University (LJMU). Creativity was introduced through a dedicated 3-hour lecture sessionand several activity-based learning sessions throughout the course. We captured the students’awareness and perceptions of creativity at multiple points throughout the course using acombination of assessments, including tailored questionnaires, the Belbin team roles instrument,self-reflection questionnaires, peer
Disney, reacting to 3Greenpeace’s video on NewBees[11], exploring the Kinetic Art movement[12], or exploring atheme from Frankenstein. To aid the students in the process of exploring a literary piece for design ideas, two mainadditions were added to the requirements for the project. The first was a structured way tointeract with the book that allowed students to document passages that could be used forinspiration in the design process, to convert these to a visual representation of a concept, and toverbally portray the connection between the design and the passage. These “reflection”assignments were accomplished through a type of two column notes. The second was to providea list of technical objectives for the robot. This allowed the
students in their HILPs; faculty and staff buy-in to cooperatively administer therequirement; and an appropriate set of rubrics for individual student evaluation, among others.While possible HILPs include several experiences, the overwhelming majority of studentsparticipated in summer internships, a sign of a strong job market during the period of study.Student deliverables include: completion of a survey on the importance of each of the BOK2outcomes in the student’s HILP and the student’s sense of preparedness in each outcome,narrative documentation of the student’s experience using the supplementary experience recordform required for PE licensure application in the department’s home state, and a reflective essayaddressing at least three BOK2
that the national education system does not focus on thedevelopment of STEM competencies. As a result, the motivation of engineering students inmathematics courses is continuously hampered because of deficiencies in prerequisites.The case study presented in this paper is part of a wider project conducted at our institution.The project involved several math courses taken by first and second year engineeringstudents. The main objective of this project was to support mathematics instructors in theprocess of contributing to improve student learning, by continuously reflecting on theeffectiveness of the pedagogical practices that are applied inside and outside the classroom,while adopting a continuous improvement culture that benefits student
materialssciences engineering disciplines. The course met for 100 minutes twice a week for 10 weeks.The course content was defined by the instructors, but the instruction was (to a high degree)tailored to the understanding of the students because it was the students themselves whodesigned the instruction. The course focus was on reflective practice and on findings fromcognitive science and education research and their application to engineering teaching andlearning. Throughout the quarter, we tried to maintain a tension between theory and practice. Onthe theory side, students became familiar with conceptual change, memory, motivation, and otherlearning concepts. On the practice side, students were exposed to innovative teaching methodsthrough the example
liberatory pedagogy in bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress. Ibegin by summarizing some key ideas from the book and subsequent calls for more liberatorypedagogies in engineering education. Next, I provide some context for my specific course as wellas my positionality. I discuss the course redesign along four themes: creating a community oflearning, transgressing against objectivity and apoliticism in engineering, promoting legitimacyand intellectual authority, and centering critical reflection. Finally, I conclude by reflecting onmy successes and challenges, and providing some lessons learned about “teaching to transgress”in an engineering technology and society course that I hope will be useful to instructors ofsimilar courses.BackgroundTeaching to
their prototype was functional but still needed improvement. After thesemester, students were each asked to reflect about the course. Altogether, students’ reflectionsshow that they perceived that they learned more, were more engaged, and were less stressed in thiscourse than in a traditional lecture-style course. Their learning spanned new knowledge, hands-onskills, research skills, professional skills, and problem-solving skills. While the students were notall able to directly use the knowledge gained through the course in their research, they all reportedgaining new skills or knowledge that will be transferrable to their future careers.KeywordsProject-based learning, plug-and-play motherboard, 3D printing, soft lithography
reflect further on themethodology and its potential for use in other engineering education research. Throughout thecase study section of the paper, we will use the terms we and the researchers to refer to the twoauthors of this paper and the participants to refer to the two people enrolled in our study. Outsideof our positionality statements, I will refer to the first author of this paper, Alexis Gillmore.Case study: Representing Researcher Identity with I-poemsResearch ContextIn the work presented here, we aimed to learn how members of an interdisciplinary researchteam represent their identities as researchers within the team. We expected that the participant-generated I-poem method we employed would lead to unique results compared to
Paper ID #31111Visual Notetaking: Opportunities to Support Student Agency in ActiveLearningWendy Roldan, University of Washington, Human Centered Design & Engineering Wendy Roldan is a PhD candidate in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Wash- ington studying equity in engineering education. Her work draws from the fields of engineering education, design, and learning sciences.Mr. Schawnery LinMs. Yuxin Xu, University of Washington, Seattle Yuxin (Ziva) Xu is a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research areas of interest include reflection in
) framework to actively promote research quality.Our reflection data illustrate how numerical reporting conventions, formative life experiences,and professional aspirations can all affect a young engineer's perception of the relevance ofvariability. We conclude with a discussion of implications for instructional practice.IntroductionVariability—the phenomenon of non-identical values—is core to modern science. The movebeyond calculating averages to the study of real variation is one of the most important scientificdevelopments of the 19th century [1]. Ernst Mayr [2] positions variability as fundamental tounderstanding evolution through “population thinking.” Statistics as a discipline exists in largepart to develop techniques to study variability
2020 [13 and 14]. The key message gleaned is that engineering education has toadapt to the challenges of the future. For engineering education to adapt for the challenges of the future, curricular changes are needed –but those must be part of a larger systemic change in the organizational culture of engineeringeducation. Faculty are the critical component in achieving the necessary systemic transformation.Facilitating the development of desired skills, dispositions, and reflective habits of mind within ourstudent populations requires a critical mass of faculty able and eager to embody and enact thesedesired characteristics. How can we assist faculty to be vital stakeholders in the cultural shift weseek within engineering education, a shift
students participate in an organized service activity that meets identified communityneeds and reflect on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of coursecontent, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility."(Bringle & Hatcher, 1995). Many past studies (e.g. Eyler and Giles, 1999) have shown service-learning to result in positive outcomes in cognitive and affective measures for students as well asbenefits to the community, faculty, and institution.Different embodiments of service-learning have developed in engineering in recent years. Directplacements in the community are utilized in the first year programs, such as at Cornell andVirginia Tech, for example. More often
can look at something and, figure out why it's moving a certain way or, how it could be made better.”One of the children participating in the project saw an engineer as, “A person that helps theenvironment by creating things that will help the environment.”Overall, the authors identified 15 unduplicated intersections between the concepts used bycitizen scientists to describe engineers and the taxonomies revealed in the Fralick et al. [13] andLucas and Hanson [15] studies. Interestingly, only one additional unique trait was attributed toengineers during the interim and exit sessions with rainwater harvesting participants. One of thechildren reflected on her father as being like an engineer during one of the interim focus groups.“He is
education, the Eco-STEM project embraces anasset-based ecosystem model that thinks of education as cultivation, and ideas as seeds we areplanting, rather than a system of standards and quality checks. This significant paradigm andculture transformation is accomplished through: 1) The Eco-STEM Faculty Fellows’ Community of Practice (CoP), which employs critically reflective dialogue[1][2] to enhance the learning environment using asset-based learner-centered instructional approaches; 2) A Leadership CoP with department chairs and program directors that guides cultural change at the department/program level; 3) A Facilitators’ CoP that prepares facilitators to lead, sustain
secondary science education, also from UVA, and taught Physics at Washington-Liberty High School in Arlington, VA. Dr. Shirey received her Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of Maryland in Education with a focus on teacher challenges and productive resources for integrating engineering design into high-school physics. Through her work as a Knowles Teacher Initiative Senior Fellow and founder of eduKatey LLC, Dr. Shirey provides and researches engineering-integrated STE(A)M curriculum, professional development, and teachers’ reflective growth practices. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Using Bio
comes fromhands on testing and each team will ensure testing of concepts prior to solidifying final designs.As part of this process, each team member is required to report – in memorandum format and inan oral presentation – their prototype design, device, test procedure, and test results. They submittheir work to the instructor and share their results with their team members. At the end of thesemester the students reflect, using an online survey, on the role the individual prototyping andtesting experience played in their (1) contribution to the team, (2) learning of technical matter,and (3) confidence in working a design project in the future.This paper reports on the student responses to this reflection. It also reports on the evaluation
equity, which is reflected in her publications, research, teaching, service, and mentoring. More at http://srl.tamu.edu and http://ieei.tamu.edu.Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University Samantha Ray is a Computer Engineering PhD student at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on creating intelligent systems for tasks that require human-like levels of understanding. She has previously worked on human activity recognition (HAR) systems for promoting healthy habits and educational tools using sketch recognition and eye tracking.Ms. Donna Jaison, Texas A&M University Donna Jaison is a PhD student under Dr. Karan Watson in the Multidisciplinary Engineering Depart- ment at Texas A&M College Station. She is a
increasing first year students’ understandingof diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) issues without impacting the overall learning outcomesof the course. These changes included: ● Creation of a pre-class/-lab assignment ● In-class/-lab discussions ● Collaborative creation of team and Class/Lab RulesAt the core of these course additions were case studies related to diversity and inclusion issuespresented at the STEM diversity forum. Students were tasked to read the case studies, reflect onquestion prompts and submit their ideas towards the creation of team or class rules that could beput in place to prevent the situation or what action they would take if they witness similarsituations on their own team or another team. This approach of
retention of information; most universityengineering classes are still primarily lecture based. Therefore, students are oblivious to thebenefits of the methods and thus are resistant to the learning approaches. The method employed toaid this problem was developing a series of worksheets that use IBL strategies to introduceintroductory engineering material. Preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of this approachwas conducted by comparing summative exams and real-time feedback of student thoughts usinga daily in-class reflection. Preliminary analysis of the exam comparison and student reflections ispromising. From reflections, the majority of the students filled out the statement sections of thereflection sheet. Fewer students filled out the
undergraduate institutions(PUIs) in the second-year engineering curriculum. All students were given a lecture on bio-inspired design and asked to complete the C-K mapping template in class as part of learningactivities to understand the process of discovery, and again in their assignment to scaffoldapplication to the course project. Analysis of the student-generated templates using a rubricshows that students were able to successfully use information (knowledge transfer) to makeconnections between biology and engineering for creating solutions for design problems.Additionally, all students were asked to respond to six reflection questions regarding the content(biology) and process (bio-inspired design). Qualitative content analysis of second
; and assisted student teams per request as they progressed with their projects. The courseprofessor assigned reading on information literacy; conducted a class discussion on informationliteracy in the broader context of intentional learning and reflective judgment; developed ahomework assignment designed to practice information retrieval and evaluation skills; reviewedthese skills on a midterm exam; reinforced information literacy skills on assignments includingproblem sets and ethics case analyses; and incorporated information literacy throughout the LCAproject and specifically through an LCA annotated bibliography assignment.Assessment data from student work as well as course surveys and focus groups provide feedbackon student learning and
[4].This study follows this line of research and intends to fine-tune the project-based methodology(PBM) in a lab course design under the theoretical framework of self-regulation. We believe thePBM enhanced with some features of self-regulation will not only achieve PBM’s originalpurpose of immersive experience but also empower the students in the sense of becoming activeagents seeking to achieve goals through self-reflection and self-adjustment [8].Under the framework of social cognitive theory of learning mainly driven by Albert Bandura [5,6], people, and not environmental forces, are the predominant causes of their own behavior [9].This personal agency, the potential to control our own behavior, grows out of our skills of self-control and
? Methodology We employed weekly academic classifications in an early warning system (EWS)for students in an undergraduate engineering course at a research-intensive university inthe Midwest. Coupled with the EWS, we used data from students’ use of variousinstructional technologies during the course through a digital coaching application calledE2Coach. The E2Coach system provides students with a variety of resources including:weekly help messages, exam preparation (before the exam) and reflection (after theexam) tools, a weekly checklist of tasks that will help students prepare for the class, agrade calculator so students can estimate their grade based on past and planned futureperformance, and various online systems for reviewing academic
’ stories 3. This interview approach consists of threeinterviews: focused life history, details of the experience, and reflection on the meaning3. Afocused life history interview provides an opportunity to allow the interviewee to tell theinterviewer about him or herself spanning back to past lived experiences up to the present. Adetails of the experience interview asks the interviewee what they actually do in a particularexperience in order to put their experience within a certain context. Finally, a reflection onmeaning interview asks the interviewee to reflect on an experience’s meaning by looking at “howthe factors in their lives interacted to bring them to their present situation” 3. Since Dolbeare andSchuman’s interview approach was designed
designs. Additionally, Eppes and Milanovic observe that integrativecapstone experiences feature conspicuously in many programs’ student outcome assessmentevaluations, which are so important for accreditation, like ABET, and program rankings.11 It isin the interests of the student and the higher education institution, then, to offer the best seniorintegrative engineering experience possible. Assessing students’ professional growth through near open-ended design can be difficult.Student reflections are often used to address this problem. Student reflections can serve twopurposes benefitting the student and the curriculum assessor in turn. Reflections give studentsthe opportunity to consider alternatives, understand professional practices, and
of the collaboration. The authors aimed to demonstrate to thecampus that there were educational benefits to increasing the number of these types of courses.The Experiential-Learning, Crossover Activity The authors developed a series of common assignments used in both courses that woulddemonstrate these common themes from both the nanotechnology and science fictionperspectives. The crossover activity involved interdisciplinary, interactive, and collaborativelearning. Faculty knew from students’ written reflections on the crossover activity, that it had animpact on their experience. Although the faculty saw anecdotal evidence of its value, it wasunknown if the crossover activity improved student mastery of course outcomes. The
canmediate the connection between a student’s epistemic metacognitive knowledge and researcheridentity). The DRIEM also represents that an individual’s researcher identity exists with, and isaffected by, their multiple other identities and/or future self. The collaborative, iterative processof developing this model led to identifying four propositions: 1) Researcher identity affects and isaffected by reflection on research actions; 2) Researcher identity is fluid and can dissolve orsolidify; 3) Researcher identity and interest in research are influenced by social contexts; and 4)Students’ researcher identity and perceptions of research are influenced by their initial dispositionsand beliefs about researchers. We further refined the DRIEM and our
detected on the same side (reflectance mode) or the opposing side (transmissionmode) after traversing the vascular tissues between the source and the detector.10 When afingertip is simplified as a hemispherical volume that is a homogenous mixture of blood (arterialand venous) and tissue, the detected light intensity is described by the Beer-Lambert law: 11 ( )( )( I t = I 0 e − µ atT e − µ avV e − µ aa A ) (1)where I0 is the incident light intensity, It is the light intensity detected by the photodetector, andµat, µav, and µaa are the absorption coefficients of the bloodless tissue layer, the venous bloodlayer, and the arterial
common thread from UDL, EM, and HCD is collaboratively identifying solutions to meet theneeds of many users. As such, methods from all three frameworks were applied throughout thisproject to identify potential improvements to the bioinstrumentation lab.Background on Participatory Action ResearchOne common application of participatory action research (PAR) is developing knowledge andidentifying opportunities for quality improvement. The PAR approach combines participants andexperts in the research of social practices [12]. Generally, PAR includes cycles of reflection,planning, action, and observation. In education, PAR can be employed by instructors who wishto improve their teaching or courses by gathering evidence of teaching effectiveness
University, Sweden in the late 1990’s7. The early attempts were based in Page 20.24.2a Problem Based Learning (PBL) environment with one or two student teams comprising students from 1both universities and a primary focus on technical achievement and competencies was reflected in the assessment. From 2000 the initial PBL course expanded to a larger cohort, and a range of mentorship components and teamwork assessment items were added. The course