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student who will complete the onlinecomponents of the EPL. Willing participants will complete a semi-structured interview via zoomas well as give the researchers the permission to analyze their course project reports. The semi-structured interview will guide respondents to reflect on their learning experience in EPL (forexample, what aspects of this class contributed most to your learning). It will seek their input onremote delivery of EPL. Finally, it will gather their self-assessment of their skill development incircuit design, AutoCAD circuit layout design, 2D electronic printing, and system assemblingand testing.Students’ course project reports will be rated. Ratings will be used to determine the effectivenessof the proposed online laboratory
communities…” [13, p.761], highlighting the way the STEM curricula centers dominant groups’ cultures andepistemologies. As a result, STEM programs may continue to see high rates of attrition amongIndigenous students [18]. While students from different BLI groups have their own uniquehistories that shape the oppression they experience in STEM, some commonalities in BLI STEMstudents’ challenges are experiencing systemic racism and navigating institutions that value thedominant groups’ culture, which can be quite distinct from their own [5], [13], [16], [17]).Meritocracy in Engineering Becoming an engineer includes learning core values of the profession, subliminally orexplicitly, which may reflect the worldviews of privileged groups. While these
opportunities. IntroductionThe United States (U.S.) has seen an increased emphasis on providing computational thinking(CT) learning opportunities for every P-12 student. The increased emphasis is reflected by theinclusion of CT in the Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy (STEL) [2] and theNext Generation Science Standards (NGSS) [1]. These standards promote the integration of CTwithin authentic, design-based engineering and science contexts. While the benefits ofintegrating CT and engineering practices are clear, there is still much to learn about the methodsused to integrate CT within authentic engineering design challenges. One strategy, physicalcomputing (the design, programming, and
software for CAD administration [xxxi], and use of online presentationenvironments to accommodate large numbers of panelists at final oral presentations [xxxii]. Additionof sand casting capability to the course to complement the conventional machining alreadyavailable is another innovation to expand student learning and utility of the course as preparationfor professional practice. The Summer 2022, a new benchtop sand casting capability was introduced to UF’s MECapstone senior design course. The class had an enrollment of 13 students broken into a team of 7and one of 6. Both student teams worked with the same Customer Needs Statement to build a sun-tracking 1 m2 reflecting heliostat for sunlight focus and concentration to a 1 m2 collector
assignments to help them with motor control and ultrasonic sensor work.But there was still a need to teach them how to create a code that others could read and follow.To achieve repeatable code, comments in the code matter greatly, and the mentors wish they hademphasized this importance more, especially when working in a group where others will readand use your code. Next year the mentors will explain to the apprentices how to comment theircode effectively for others to use.Upon reflection, it would have been helpful to have conflict resolution training for the mentors tobetter help the apprentice teams that were having interpersonal issues. Most issues were easy tohandle but there were some more complex issues. The mentors did have weekly meetings
. Our goal is to provide the correct information in many forms such asactivities, lectures, and achievements. The past and present experiences are the reason why the members of Tau AlphaPi are working on this presentation to reflect the needs and what we would like to see inthe future. Faculty and students’ future expectations include better equipment,enrollment increases, and participation in organizations. We, as an organization, have also taken the time to develop not only ourengineering technology program but also other engineering technology programs insurrounding areas. We have researched what makes other engineering technologyprograms successful and problems that occur within their discipline. The success of mostof the
research and some graduate courses focus onareas of specialty which reflect the needs of their constituent liaison organizations. This is selfreinforcing since over a span of many years, many of the graduates of an EM program are nowtop level managers in these same liaison organizations. Again, this is not necessarily unique toEM programs, nor it is necessarily a bad thing. But it does create for a challenging educationalenvironment that struggles with educating and not simply training,3,4 and whose researchavenues as we will see later, may at times be quite limited.Finally, most EM programs have yet another influencing factor, that of the media or platform inwhich the product is delivered. Most all EM programs have a distance education (Internet
at Texas A&M University, and has been involved in academic technology for over 20 years. He helped establish the Engineering Studio for Advanced Instruction & Learning (eSAIL),Sandra R. Childers, Texas A&M University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 LESSONS LEARNED: A 360-Degree Review of Faculty Development ResourcesAbstractThis paper reflects on the process, results, and lessons learned from a comprehensive review ofthe professional development resources and program provided for Engineering faculty by adistance education support unit at a large research university. The purpose of the review is todetermine the overall effectiveness
student looking to take this course, and would it bedifferent if it was a student of color?” When answering this question, Ebo said that he does notthink that his advice would be different to a white student or student of color, but rather it wouldbe different for an international student. He said that his international student identity is what heunderstands, so he would only speak through that context.2: moving towards racial-ethnic identity examination in the U.S. context. After some periodof time, international students tend to start evolving their identities to fit into the U.S. context. Inthe interviews, students often reflected on a catalyst that required them to consider how theiridentity fits in the U.S. context.Positioning themselves
lecture and two 110-minute labs perweek for fifteen weeks. Topics addressed in the course include visualization, sketching,orthographic, isometric, section, and auxiliary views, dimensioning standards, and parametricCAD using Creo. Because hand sketching has been shown to be important to improvingvisualization abilities and long-term student success not only in engineering graphics but across avariety of engineering courses [1], [2], [3], the first five weeks of the course are spent handsketching and it is continued throughout the semester even after CAD has been introduced.Whilst the content in the course is regularly updated to reflect changes in engineering graphicsstandards and CAD software used, the basic format remained the same for several
themes in the data by examining theparticipant’s responses to the open-ended questions. The data was first reviewed to identify initialcodes, which were then grouped into categories and themes based on their similarity. The themeswere then reviewed to ensure they accurately reflected the data and were supported by theparticipants' responses. This mixed-methods approach provided a comprehensive understandingof student perspectives, and the results were used to develop recommendations to enhance theonline learning experience for engineering students.ResultsThe questionnaire was administered to 15 students enrolled in the Principles of Surveyingengineering course, and the results are presented below.Question 1 indicated that 80% of participants
held by women but the number of departmentheads and other decision-makers is not effectively reported. The same goes for private firms thatmay list a woman in a leadership role, however, what their real levels of responsibility anddecision-making abilities are, remains unknown.Motivation, Resiliency, and Persistence in STEM To combat the barriers women and minorities face when pursuing academic and careerpathways in technology and engineering, universities, professional organizations, and privatecompanies are taking action to increase gender equity, diversity, and inclusionary practices.Agencies and organizations have taken it upon themselves to study and report the inequities inacademics and careers that reflect the negligence with
REU programs are necessary to counteract the barriers that many ofour women and underrepresented student population experience in the STEM field. Effective andintentional REU programs assist in fostering positive social and working conditions in a safeenvironment that fosters a community of practice.Future WorkIn preparation for the upcoming summer GCSP-REU program, the reflection upon the pastsummer REU program is critical for the improvement of the curriculum design. The curriculumis continuously evolving and revised to provide the scholars the most beneficial experiencepossible over the course of the 10 weeks. Firstly, the weekly meetings will continue to resume inperson with a Zoom option for researchers that are unable to participate in
tenure stuff was, like, a whole another step in its own right.” [R2]Peer-review committee feedback was often minimal as well. Several faculty reported that officialletters were often generic and positive (“Keep up the good work!”), and under-reflected whatwould be needed for tenure and promotion. R10 speculated that committees try to be positive intheir official letters because the letters stay in the candidate’s record, and are included in theirP&T dossier.A female non-STEM faculty member received a positive official letter from her committee, butwas also told in a side conversation with faculty from her department that changes were needed.In her words: “The official letter is really positive and praiseworthy, and the summary is
address a gap in the literature and understand theideologies male students hold that either promote or threaten gender equity in engineeringeducation.2.3.Established Strategies for Improving the Culture Climate for Women in EngineeringFriedrich, Sellers, and Burstyn [10] note that the following strategies have been well establishedin the literature to improve the cultural climate for women studying engineering: increaseawareness of the social issue, inclusive teaching strategies, and intervention programs to increaseequity for minoritized students. Faculty and instructional staff can raise awareness by givingstudents the opportunity to reflect on their experiences with diversity and its value. Students oftenonly have these conversations on
and the new coursedue to multiple factors; format, credit hours and topics. Originally, 150 minutes of engineeringeconomics class time per week, plus an additional engineering economics lab, with now anadditional topic of project management needed to be fit into 100 minutes a week. Additionally,originally 4 engineering economics credit, plus 3 credits of Project Management course work nowneeded to be reflective of the new 2 credit course weight. This required re-thinking andreimagining the teaching environment just as Sheppard had said needed to happen.A group of prior Engineering Economics instructors and prior Project Management instructorsjoined together to form a committee to study and create the new 2 credit combined course
as well as some topics indeep learning. Using the same dataset for many assignments fosters a feeling of studentcomfortability, promotes comparing the performances of different ML algorithms, and providesa low barrier of entry after the initial assignment.Our paper is both a detailed syllabus of a first course in maritime-focused ML and a how-toguide for effective use of the mini projects we have developed. Going further, it is a solution tothe mini projects, as it reports on ML algorithms’ performances, how the choices of key tuningparameters affect said performances, and how and why algorithms perform the way they do.Included in the paper is a student reflection authored by a US Coast Guard license student inengineering to offer
(EL), synchronized to the lab, where students study theacademic background underlying the leadership capabilities prior to the related Leadership Lab anddiscuss and reflect on the lessons learned following a given lab, and 3) one from a number ofelective courses that fulfill a Design and Innovation Leadership Requirement (D&ILR), whichfocuses on the engineering design process and the roles of teamwork and leadership therein.Incorporating alumni outcomes measurement in a longitudinal assessment planEarly in its history, GEL began periodically conducting pre-/post- program assessments rooted inmeasurement of students' self-efficacy beliefs [15] pertinent to learning objectives underlying theCapabilities of Effective Engineering Leaders (see
averagedto create a composite score. The scale historically holds acceptable levels of internalconsistency.And finally for stereotype endorsement, a three-item scale was used to measure theextent to which participants endorsed various stereotypes associated with their genderand their STEM domain. Participants answered items an a scale of 1 to 5 and acomposite scale was calculated by averaging the value of each of the three items.Unlike the other scales, verbiage was only worded in one way, such as “In general, menmay be better than women at Engineering.” Therefore, the scores were reverse codedfor women to reflect a self-gender association of the “stereotype endorsement.” Thescale has a historically high internal consistency.Implicit Association
these activities. An internship program has been established with theACUA and we will be assessing the impact of the internship program this summer. The SJLWThas also been trained to adopt our activities and implement in their outreach program thissummer. Activities for the WaterCave and WaterTalk modules will be ready by the end of thesummer of 2023. We will initiate school visits and adaptation of the developed modules this Fall.Acknowledgement:We acknowledge the support of the USEPA for funding this project (Grant # 84034701). Anyopinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USEPA.
get out of that, and this is what I would tell you to say to do that or, you know, so I have people in my corner, who definitely are trying to help reduce that kind of workload.”Eva has a mentor that understands the tenure process and is a support for her as she navigates theworkload and faculty norms. Understanding the importance of mentorship in these experiences iscrucial to understanding how faculty navigate the tenure process, especially with the lack ofmentors that reflect their identities which promotes isolation.Understanding the Tenure and Promotion process in Engineering Departments Participants spoke in detail about the worries they had about the process. Some of theareas of concern are highlighted by a few
interactions with peers and faculty withinthe first 10 weeks (about 2 and a half months) of graduate school reduced the impact of stress,both physically and psychologically, for the next 6 months [7]. Overall, we know that at least40% of all doctoral students do not complete their programs, and much of this attrition could beprevented and is not reflective of student capability [8].Simultaneously, doctoral degrees awarded in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) continue to be disproportionately awarded to white students. In the 2019-20 academicyear, 71.3% of all STEM doctoral degrees awarded to U.S. citizens and permanent residentswere awarded to white students, even though the U.S. population is approximately 59.3% white.Only 4.3
addition to performance evaluations,the lab staff's professional growth can also be assessed through self-reflection, goal setting, andopportunities to expand their skills by taking on new projects. The staff is also encouraged toparticipate in workshops and attend conferences. The combination of performance evaluationsand other assessment methods provides a comprehensive view of the lab staff's professionaldevelopment and helps ensure that they are able to sufficiently provide services to the first-yearstudents using the makerspace.Next StepsThe Engineering Lab experienced setbacks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, thededication of the staff members and faculty manager has helped to revitalize the space and makeit available to
inmore challenging open-ended analyses. Students begin by applying Ohm’s law to the seriescircuit, then learn to make power calculations, and eventually draw conclusions related toimpedance matching. This activity remains relevant because the calculations are reflected inlaboratory measurements with the VAWT.AssignmentsThe activity spans five weeks. A problem set is completed once a week in class and part of thatproblem set is a simple series circuit, the model for the VAWT. The lab component meets once aweek, and this is where concepts are reinforced. It is not unusual for some students, usually thosewith no prior experience, to find the circuit analysis problem so different that they react bydisengaging and deciding it is not worth their time
make can reveal their interests. For example, rational choice theory indicates thatchoices are based on a cost : benefit analysis of alternatives [47], [48]. So choices may reflectperceived costs like requiring more time or difficulty, rather than intrinsic interest in the topic.However, students’ choices can also reflect other factors such as primacy bias, which results inpreferential selection of options listed first [49], [50].For local context, over the past ten years the overall number of undergraduate students majoringin civil engineering at CU has declined from a high of 294 in 2012, making up 8.8% ofundergraduates in the College of Engineering, to a low of 219 in 2022, making up only 3.8% ofthe undergraduates in the College of
participant facilitated three one-on-one discussions with thestudent avatars Ciara, Jordan, and Stephanie to understand the nature of the conflict from theirperspective. To mitigate order effects, we varied the order in which each of the twelve studyparticipants facilitated discussions with the three student avatars. The study participants took 15or fewer minutes for each one-on-one discussion. The host avatar, Nina, introduced the session,asked reflective questions after each discussion, and concluded the session. These activities weresupported by a host script. The one-on-one student discussions were not scripted, but rather, eachstudent avatar responded to TA questions using improvisation within the constraints of thescenario. The same sim played
engineering curriculum. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.Dr. Robert P. Hesketh, Rowan University Robert Hesketh is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. in 1982 from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1987. After his Ph.D. he conducted research at the University of CamProf. Matthew D. Stuber, University of Connecticut Dr. Matt Stuber is an Assistant Professor with the Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and the Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering at the University of
understanding offatigue and corrosion.The authors gratefully acknowledge support for this effort under Office of Naval Research grantN00014-18-1-2587 overseen by the program officers William Nickerson and Anisur Rahman.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Naval Research.References[1] R.I. Stephens, A. Fatemi, R.R. Stephens, H.O. Fuchs. Metal fatigue in engineering, 2nd ed.,Wiley, 2000.[2] M.M. Khonsari, M. Amiri. Introduction to Thermodynamics of Mechanical Fatigue, CRCPress, Florida, USA, 2013.[3] Y.Q. Wingelaar-Jagt, T.T. Wingelaar, W.J. Riedel, J.G. Ramaekers, Fatigue in Aviation:Safety Risks, Preventive Strategies and
Paper ID #36191Absorption and distribution of Arsenic by plants & role of soil conditionsDr. sunil Dehipawala, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College Sunil Dehipawala received his B.S. degree from University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and Ph.D from City University of New York. Currently, he is working as a faculty member at Queensborough Community College of CUNY.Dr. Harsha Rajapakse, Medgar Evers College, CUNY A committed chemist, researcher, educator, and innovator with an unwavering desire for excellence, clar- ity of reflection, multi-disciplinary learning accomplishments, ground-breaking