Students From Non-Metropolitan Community CollegesAbstractIn Fall 2009, a National Science Foundation (NSF) STEP grant award (# 0856834) was made tosupport a collaboration between a Research I University and five rural (non- metropolitan)community colleges (CC). The grant followed a smaller NSF grant (# 0836050) whichsupported the exploration of a four-year school working with three rural CCs.This paper will first look at the enrollments of transfer students in engineering and computerscience at the university for the past seven years. Large increases have occurred in the past twoyears. An analysis of the smaller transfer enrollment increases from the five non- metropolitancommunity colleges will then be discussed.This paper will
her research in many aspects of relationships; organizations with their communities, leaders with their members and relationship building across cultures. She has received awards for her research and teaching. An experienced consultant, she applies her knowledge in corporations, educational institutions, and non- profit organizations on subjects including crisis prevention and management, membership development and information management. Her book, Professional Communication: A relationship management ap- proach written together with Dr. Yanan Ju is used by Fudan University, PRC to provide training for students desiring to work in the US. She is also the Subject Matter Expert for the Hyundai Leadership Program
a semester that is already packedwith other course requirements and activities. With other priorities demanding student andfaculty time, realizing interaction between industry experts and students in design courses may ormay not be achievable. Research to understand the value of expert interactions may informeducators as to the pedagogical value and provide support for including these activities in designcourses.In this paper, the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Design Competition wasselected for three reasons: 1) interaction with experts is part of the competition requirements, 2)winning design proposal packages are available on a website for the ACRP Design Competition[1], and 3) the authors have participated in the
Engineering Technologycurricula specifically needs further attention. This gap highlights the need for enhancingentrepreneurship education in this field, considering the industry's demand for graduates whoare both technically skilled and entrepreneurially minded. This research explores theintegration of entrepreneurship into an Engineering Technology (ET) program, with a focus ona sustainable building course. It employs innovative educational strategies such as micro-moments, bisociation, virtual reality, entrepreneurial tasks, and a project-based approach todevelop real-world problem-solving skills. The effectiveness of this approach was assessedthrough a quantitative and qualitative survey to understand student perceptions. Findings revealstudents
describe the course content with little attention paid to the process ofdeveloping such courses. While these are no doubt helpful for others trying to develop similarcourses, what we report here comes from systematically collected data that included informationabout how a faculty member incorporated advice about developing courses, selected labs for thecourse, and got those labs ready for student use, a research approach we hope to see more often.Course development funding arrived in early 2007. Because this left too little time to workthrough bureaucratic approvals for an undergraduate course before fall, a special-topics,graduate-level course could be offered in the spring-summer session (lasting seven weeks fromroughly early May through late
equitable development within a particular community. Theredesigned curriculum provides broader educational training to address environmentalengineering challenges, meets community identified needs, and considers the impacts of structuralracism. Collaborations between university researchers and community leaders and members ledto an expansion of community-based research in civil and environmental engineering. This projectstudies the impacts of the new curriculum on student perceptions of racism and justice and onfaculty interest and capacity for catalyzing additional curricular and co-curricular change. Initialcollaborations from the community-based research have included diverse communication tools toshare information with and about the community
. Faculty who have implemented the instrumenthave found it to be a valuable classroom tool, promoting self-awareness of life-long learningskills in a variety of course settings and supporting action research on lower-division designexperiences. Their discoveries are summarized here using a framework for assessment literacythat is widely used in the K-12 education community.ROLE OF EARLY-PROGRAM ASSESSMENTRepresentatives of both industry and academia rank design process, teamwork, andcommunication among the top five capabilities that emerging engineers need to possess 1. Inresponse to such expectations, ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 now requires programs seekingaccreditation to not only develop key competency areas such as these, but also to devise
support includes: (a) tuition waivers for any gap need beyond need-basedfinancial aid awards, (b) free use of textbooks, and (c) New York City transit cards(MetroCards).The ASAP model was evaluated using a random assignment experimental design and tested andproven to be successful when offered as the complete suite of supports just described, withassociate degree students (i.e., partial implementation and implementation with different cohortswas not evaluated). Students in ASAP had an impressive three-year graduation rate of 40.1%compared to 21.8% for matched non-participants (11). Previous internal research showed thatHispanic male students in ASAP had a 3-year graduation rate of 46.7% compared to 18.2% for amatched group.As students in this
shouldalso explore the program's weaknesses from the students' perspective and utilize prompts to identifyopportunities for continuous improvement.AcknowledgmentsThe authors acknowledge support from NASA Cooperative agreement 80NSSC19M0227 (NAMER),NSF Awards -2122195 (VENTURES) and -2126060 (IMMERSE), and NNSA DE-NA0004018(PAMER).References[1] Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, "Doctor's Degrees Conferred by Postsecondary institutions, By Race/Ethnicity and Field of Study: 2017-18 and 2018- 19," 2021. [Online]. Available: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/2020menu_tables.asp. [Accessed 28 03 2023].[2] National Action Council For Minority in Engineering, Research & Policy, "Trends in the U.S
non-technical skills, the dataalso shows a slight change from ‘extremely important’ reasons and ‘somewhat important’reasons in two categories related to workplace learning, specifically: (1) gainingtechnical/engineering skills and (2) learning how to be a leader in the dynamic workplace. Thissuggests that by participating in the bootcamp and working together with cross-cultural teammembers in assigned projects, some students recognized that success of the projects depends notonly on the technical skills but also on how well they communicate their ideas to othercolleagues and how cooperative they are in accepting other opinions as well.Learning and ExpectationsFigure 6 shows that among the expectations that were ‘extremely important’ for
lot, and generallyrequires that the student have some other means of support. Finding such students is not simple.Retaining such students is a challenge, especially as some may have started a summer without ajob, but may eventually obtain employment which reduces or eliminates the time they candevote. Added to this, the often-encountered aura surrounding the word “research” may causeanxiety among students who lack peers or role models. Undergraduate students may considerresearch something “only graduate students do” [12].Described herein is the origin, genesis, recruiting, management, and execution of a pro bonoundergraduate research team study, the supervision and motivation of the students, and a fieldtrip and “team-building experience
Higher Education. She has created qualitative and quantitative instruments for outcome assessment in enginering education. She has also evaluated policy efforts towards engineering diversity and undergraduate research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Using a Peer Evaluation tool to explores minority bias at a Freshman-level Engineering cornerstone courseThis Work in Progress (WIP) paper explores the use of a peer evaluation tool to analyze ifminority biases exist when students evaluate their peers at a Freshman-level EngineeringCornerstone course. In 2002, this course was created partly in response to the particular emphasisin the use of methodologies that favor
agriculture, engineering, and technology, and let students explore the issuesthrough writing essays. Before starting of spring semester 2002, the coordinators for the ABELearning Community and the English 105 instructor met and discussed our goals for the course,and how we would collaborate throughout the semester to monitor progress and make changes. Page 8.1246.2“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”We decided that the freshmen needed an experience that would challenge their views on theworld, agriculture, and
Balances Introduction to computing tools for engineering: MatLabFigure 1: Examples of linkages across courses in three programsThe cooperative relationship among faculty is an important aspect of curricular reform, andshould enhance the potential for institutionalizing the reform efforts. By taking the pairwise-linkage approach to reform using computational skills as the learning stream (vertical slice), thelearning outcomes of individual classes also become more connected in process, knowledge, andapplication for the students. The curriculum becomes less a set of courses and more an integratedset of learning experiences. It is also important that institutional leaders are supportive early inthe change process18 in order to
Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsuch as critical problem solving, problem formulation, defensible judgment, and facility inmaking connections among divergent bodies of knowledge and their application outside of class.The American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) joined with the American CollegePersonnel Association and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators inissuing a major 1998 report 4 on student learning. Drawing from pedagogic research and practice,the joint report lays out major principles about learning and how to strengthen it. It concludesthat rich learning environments require students to, among other things:• connect
curiosity for exploration via scientific trials.Peer Learning and CollaborationThe longitudinal result (Table 2 and Figure 1) shows decreased collaborative learning behaviorsamong students after introducing an experiment-focused teaching method. The mean collaborationscores of the last two items in Table 2 showed a slight increase from Spring 2022 to Fall 2022,followed by a decrease over the next two semesters, reaching the lowest score in Fall 2023. Clearly,using personalized instruments does not strengthen the development of peer learning andcollaboration among the learners.Decreasing trends were observed in all three survey items related to peer explanation, group work,and discussion of course content. This suggests that the initial increase in
for use with theMMRE. The research question was addressed with one-way multivariate analysis of variance(MANOVA). When disaggregating the groups by gender and URM status, one-way analysis ofvariance (ANOVA) was used because the bivariate correlations among constructs were low(<0.2). The participant pool was a convenience sample of 169 undergraduate students whoelected to take a lecture course titled General Chemistry for Engineers during the Fall semesterat a large public research university in the southern United States and provided informed consentfor the research. In parallel and without prior knowledge, participants self-enrolled in alaboratory course where two-sections represented our comparison and intervention conditions,one using
particular presentations but also understand how to do similar research. • Ideas for startups: Many students in the program have ideas for how a particular new/re- cent technology can be used as the basis of a new startup. Indeed, many students are first attracted to NEWPATH because they have such ideas, do not know what to do with them, and want to be able to discuss the ideas with others who might have more experience with startups than they themselves have. The sessions at which these presentations are made tend to be the ones that draw the most active participation from all students. The degree of ca- maraderie and cooperation that students display in such meetings in helping each other hone their understanding and
software engineering.OverviewThe Teaching Artificial Intelligence as a Laboratory Science †1 (TAILS) project is designed todevelop a new paradigm for teaching introductory artificial intelligence (AI) concepts byimplementing an experiment-based approach modeled after the lab sciences. It explores whetherstructured labs with exercises that are completed in teams before students leave the classroomcan build a sense of accomplishment, confidence, community, and collaboration among students,characteristics which have been shown to be critical to retain women and non-traditionalcomputer science students in the field.TAILS presents to students an array of fundamental AI algorithms as a set of hands-on activitiesmade available through a database of lab
practical ideas and classroom units for the upcoming school year. 2. Conducting research and expanding knowledge in robotics courses. 3. Spending significant time in a lab environment to solve problems and inform curriculum development. 4. Creating engaging content for students. 5. Learning from experts on specific topics and collaboratively creating materials for their classes. 6. To experience 3-D design and delving deeper into the process and implementation. 7. Exploring logistics and supply chain automation.Among the potential avenues to improve classroom instruction, educators included the following: 1. Identifying learning objectives, planning specific learning activities, and starting with a broader perspective
Ramachandran,who wrote the Web-based program that collected the reports on students’ perceptions of theirpartners, as well as Dr. Laurie Williams, their supervisor. Nagappan was funded by NSF DUECCLI grant #0088178. Ramachandran was funded by the Center for Advanced Computing andCommunication (CACC), a membership-based industry/university cooperative research centerco-located at North Carolina State University and Duke University. The statistical analyses wereperformed by Janet L. Bartz, a graduate student in statistics, under the supervision of Dr.Christopher Basten.Bibliography[1] L. A. Williams, “Pair programming,” http://www4.ncsu.edu/~lawilli3/PP/PairProgramming.pdf[2] L. A. Williams, “The Collaborative Software Process PhD Dissertation
Lawrence National Laboratory focusing on com- putational analysis for nonlinear seismic analysis of Department of Energy nuclear facilities and systems. After joining SFSU in 2016, she established an active research lab at SFSU with a diverse group of under- graduate and Master’s level students. For her engineering education research, she is interested in exploring how to use technology such as virtual reality and 3D printing to enhance student engagement. She is an active member of ASCE, ASEE, and SEAONC.Dr. Zhaoshuo Jiang, San Francisco State University Zhaoshuo Jiang graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineer- ing. Before joining San Francisco State University as an assistant
University of Michigan: Strategies and Preliminary Results.” Presented at the University of Rhode Island, 6th Annual Conference on International Engineering Education, Providence, RI14. Mayhew, M.J. & Landreman, L. (2004). “Exploring engineering students’ decisions to engage in international experiences: A grounded theory.” Presented at the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.15. Bennett, M.J. (1993). “Towards Ethnorelativism: A Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity.” In Paige, R.M. (Ed.) Education for the intercultural experience (2nd ed.).Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1- 51.16. Eljamal, M.B., Mayhew, M.J., Pang, S.W., & Dey, E. (2003). “Gaining a
design solution. During the first semester, the students present their research to one another with potential solutions to problems. Faculty act as moderators attempting to keep the students on track, and within some reasonable budget. The big question for this project was whether to use an equatorial3 or altitude azimuth4 design for the telescope’s rotation. The equatorial is a far simpler design for tracking the stars as it only needs to rotate about one axis once it is set up. However, the mechanical issues were far more difficult, and an altitude azimuth arrangement was chosen. Fortunately for this project, the students continued to work on the design issues through the fall semester while they were doing their last
conference entitled “Research and Engineering Education in a Global Society.”Participants identified best practices, discussed strategies, and formulated a declaration forachieving goals in engineering education and global research cooperation, with a view tobuilding a global society in the next century.5 Joining in this call for change was the NationalScience Foundation, which encouraged mutual and beneficial cooperation with other countries inits publication NSF Engineering: The Long View.6Universities in general have long supported the view that an international experience is avaluable part of education. However, such an experience is more difficult in a program of studyfor engineers than some other disciplines. Consider, for example, that 43% of
marketsand understanding customer needs. They also learned to appreciate each other’s disciplines.There were problems, however. It was difficult to get the students to work together (we call it the Page 12.681.2junior-high dance syndrome), the students tended to over optimize their components withoutregard for the product as a whole, and they did not fully appreciate the constraints of workingwith existing intellectual property as well as existing engineering and manufacturingconsiderations.Moreover, the class provided insight, stimulation, and an opportunity for faculty to collaborate inthe design, development, and execution of a course that
ahands-on component. The author of this paper doesn’t disagree with this argument. The goal ofthis article is to provide additional insights and definitions of the active learning approaches usedin face-to-face electrical engineering technology (EET) courses, offer suggestions forimplementing additional active learning methods, cooperative learning and problem-basedlearning, as well as encouraging learning and engagement among students in EET hands-oncourses. The reality is that in many cases, EET faculty members apply their own version ofactive learning methods without the knowledge of the terminology, research in education, andbody of literature available on the subject.The suggestions provided in this paper, while confirming principles and
developing stochastic and probability reasoning; 3) students’ attitudes towardsstatistics courses, among other aspects.In order to be able to design the different modules, first an analysis of the objectives of eachcourse and their relationship to the student learning outcomes was performed. Both theIndustrial Engineering Department at Universidad del Norte in Colombia and the Department ofEngineering at Colorado State University – Pueblo in the United States are accredited by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the business college at the UnitedStates is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).The School of Business at Colorado State University – Pueblo teaches BUSAD 265
, engineering studentsin particular have been shown to have a preference for active, visual, hands-on learning10-13.While previous generations have valued solitary contributions, today’s students are communal intheir learning style. Ron Zemke14 has characterized these students as “leave no one behindattitude”. This is a generation brought up with cooperative and collaborative learning modelsfrom kindergarten.Environmental and Economic Tradeoffs Within Supply ChainsIn determining a model industry in which to explore the research questions, the U.S. automotiveindustry seemed the most likely choice. Car manufacturing relies on hundreds of suppliers forcomponents and materials to manufacture vehicles, with emissions released to air, water, and
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