capstonedesign curriculum, the current two year research project was designed to implement and assessthe efficacy of the activities as an integral part of the course. IC activities have been incorporatedin the USAFA capstone design course previously, but their effects were not directly studied.Nevertheless, faculty observations and customer feedback suggested that creativity and productinnovation improvements occurred. Thus, sufficient anecdotal evidence existed to motivatefurther formal examination of the impact of IC activities on the USAFA engineering designprocess and capstone design course.Since the underlying conceptual process of the capstone design course and the DI activityexperience reflects the divergent thinking processes it is appropriate
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interpreting the hypothetical relationships asarticulated in social cognitive career theory. Also, consistent with the theoretical framework,HCCS participants serve as research mentors for undergraduate students from the ComputingResearch Association Women’s Distributed Research Experience for Undergraduates program.The following propositions from Lent et al.’s (1994) social cognitive career theory (pp. 91–98)informed the development and implementation of HCCS Program: • Proposition 1. An individual’s occupational or academic interests at any point in time are reflective of his or her concurrent self–efficacy beliefs and outcome expectations. • Proposition 2. An individual’s occupational interests also are influenced by their
activities, (d) technology training, and (e) a practice teaching session.This research focuses on the online community, workshop series, and community of scholars’activities, with the workshop series being the main hub for content delivery. The content wasdelivered in a series of three workshops anchored in engineering education that brought inelements of today’s student, how people learn, course design using an engineering designmindset, planning for all students, and an introduction to different types of active learningstrategies. Also included in each workshop was deliberate time given for faculty to do bothindividual and group reflection and discussion of the content, how it applies to their course(s),and to begin developing an implementation
significantly lowered theDEW rates for students over traditional delivery instruction. This supports the use of flipped andmixed methods to improve student achievement. Despite the improvement in DEW percentages,the rate of students achieving an A in the course was significantly higher in the mixed class thanin either the flipped or traditional sections. Overall, the grades reflected similar outcomes to theexams where students in the mixed section outperformed students in both the flipped andtraditional sections. This indicates that, despite some promise shown in the flipped coursesection, students in that section were still not able to achieve at the same level as their peers inthe mixed-delivery class. The reason for this outcome answer may be due to
the concept of entrepreneurship whenIngeniería 2030 began, but with time they integrated it. Authorities integrate entrepreneurshipinto their discourse, which mobilized people.When the idea of entrepreneurship is present in the discourse of the highest authority, the ideaflows downwards and transcends faculty members, staff, and students. In our sample, the top-down model is best reflected at the PUC case. Here, the Ingeniería 2030 project strengthened analready existing emphasis already in the dean, increasing its importance among the facultymembers and other actors, who did not necessarily share the vision of the entrepreneurialengineer. One strategy was to make them see that this was a public policy matter and not somewhimsical move on the
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Foundation [CollaborativeResearch: Florida IT Pathways to Success (Flit-Path) NSF# 1643965, 1643931, 1643835]. Anyfindings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect theviews of the National Science Foundation.References[1] A. Hogan and B. Roberts, “Occupational employment projections to 2024,” Mon. Labor Rev., 2017.[2] “Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Computer Programmers, on the Internet at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and- information-technology/computer-programmers.htm (visited January 29, 2019).” .[3] X. Chen, Stem Attrition: College Students & apos Paths into and Out of StemFields. Statistical Analysis Report
my life that everybody from neighbors to families, everybody came toyour house and you had food together, such delicious food all over the table, thatexperience, I think, I'm never gonna to get again. I really felt home and I really felt thatyou know, fireworks and all that for the Chinese culture in the Chinese New Year. ButI think the Chinese culture might be similar to our culture. Pakistan is also in Asia. Werespect our ancestors, respect our parents our professors, whoever teaches us, really,have the highest respect.” -- PhillipSkills DomainIn the skill domain, students’ perception of their learning gains mainly reflected in thefollowing aspects: software
dates back to the American philosopher John Dewey who defined it asreflective thinking. Dewey defined reflective thinking as “…the ground or basis for a belief isdeliberately sought and its adequacy to support the belief examined” [4]. This definition evolvedinto intellectual abilities and skills by Benjamin Bloom who developed Bloom’s taxonomy ofeducational objectives [5]. Currently, P21 classifies critical thinking as reasoning effectively, usingsystems thinking, making judgements and decisions, and solving problems [3]. Critical thinking is important to develop in students. The Femineer® Program is able tohelp students develop critical thinking skills by introducing systems thinking into the WearableTechnology curriculum. This will
with. I was not really sure what was important in lectures or tutorials, so I tried to get down all I could. Strategic I organized my study time carefully to make the best use of it. Learning I was pretty good at getting the work done when I had to. I think I was quite systematic and organized when I prepared the assignment and the quizzes. Deep Learning Before starting the assignment, I first tried to work out what lies behind it. When I was working on the assignment, I tried to see how all the ideas fitted together. I often reflected on things I heard in the lectures, read in the book or were asked in the tutorials.In 2017
reflected in one of the Program Education Objectives (PEOs): Within 3-5 years aftergraduation from the JI, the graduates should be able to apply their creativity and globalperspective in their engineering or non-engineering professions. We use this paper to report tothe community our thoughts, practices, and outcomes of the interdisciplinary engineeringeducation at the JI.Interdisciplinarity in Engineering CurriculaThe curricula of the engineering programs at the JI are enriched with elements beyond technicaltraining. There is a first-year Introduction to Engineering course that allows students to have ataste of engineering in an interesting subject area before they claim a major; the capstone designprojects allow the students to join each other
theinstructor’s experience of teaching other courses, the percentages for ‘strongly agree’ are higher inthis course, implying a possible effect of the pedagogies developed. Especially, on Questions 3 and6, student percentages of ‘strongly agree’ are much higher at 88.9% and 77.8% than usual. Question3 is tied to an ability to design electrical systems, components, or processes to meet desired needs,and Question 5 is related to an ability to communicate effectively, illustrated in Fig. 7 (Zhao, et. al.,2017). In addition, in comparison with the instructor’s previous experience teaching this course witha traditional project-based method (i.e. no sub-projects, no divide-and-conquer learning protocoland no interview sessions for reflection and adjustments
communities of practice [3] to understandstudents’ mutual learning. Based on ethnographic observations of pairs of graduate andundergraduate engineers working in four research laboratories, we investigate how students learncrucial research skills from each other. In general, all the students learned professional skills,such as communication and collaboration, while the undergraduates also learned technical skills,such as how to conduct laboratory work. In addition, the graduate students benefitted from self-reflection about their research routines and assumptions thanks to undergraduates’ questions andsuggestions. 1This paper investigates the
reflection is going on about how we as educators need to evolve. • Conversion of discussions into action in technical education around the globe will be highly appreciated. • A breakthrough, courageous act for the organizers to introduce and seat this concept; a surprise to see how much momentum and appetite exists for Peace Engineering. The challenge is to open up to co-create it without politics of sector (academe v business; engineering v business schools) or internal politics. Walk the talk of system wellbeing.Conclusions – Lessons from the ConferenceEssentially, Peace Engineering is a movement towards a new ethos for engineering. Foreducation, it means developing students with a worldview based on inclusion
in a style that should be interesting and accessible tostudents and is not overly long. However, it is somewhat dated. The paper could form the basisfor in-class discussion or a written reflection if an instructor generated appropriate prompts.There are also more detailed case studies related to privacy that would be good vehicles forinstruction, including Google Street View [40, 41] and “optimizing schools” [42]. These cases donot explicitly discuss a human rights perspective, so this framing would need to be added by theinstructor.Right to Property – Article 17Article 17 relates to the right to own and not “be arbitrarily deprived of [ ] property” [1]. Thisrelates to civil engineering and the use of eminent domain for projects, which is of
giventime - representing a relatively small infusion of resources into a large, complex organization.Despite this, the outcomes have been quite significant, and have laid critical groundwork forcontinued change.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNumber DUE1525775. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedin this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] N. R. Council, Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and improving learning in undergraduate science and engineering. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2012.[2] PCAST STEM
. This diversity in the team background was reflected in the development of theworkshops, throughout the materials presented, and through the complexity of the final productof the workshops. The faculty team collaborating on this project decided to approach theteaching of the making process from a multidisciplinary perspective, using this very specializedproject based theme, of the bio-inspired robots. Some specific topics included in the workshopsare currently included in the courses they teach regularly, such as the “Bioinspired Robotics”course which is offered to undergraduate students in the Mechanical Engineering program, the“Introduction to Mechatronics” course which is offered to undergraduate students in Mechanicaland Electrical
). Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authorsand do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References [1] K. Thornton, S. Nola, R. E. Garcia, M. Asta, and G. B. Olson, “Computational materials science and engineering education: A survey of trends and needs,” JOM, vol. 61, no. 10, p. 12, 2009. [2] R. A. Enrique, M. Asta, and K. Thornton, “Computational materials science and engineering education: An updated survey of trends and needs,” JOM, vol. 70, pp. 1644–1651, Sep 2018. [3] M. Borrego and C. Henderson, “Increasing the use of evidence-based teaching in stem higher education: A comparison of eight change strategies,” J. Eng. Educ., vol
/her experience believed that the well-planned lesson under the TPACK framework resulted inbetter motivation, satisfaction and engagement in the learners over the traditional instruction. Allthose might produce better learning outcomes for the TPACK case as reflected in Figure 5.Likewise, better motivation, satisfaction and learning outcomes of the learners might result inbetter satisfaction and confidence in the instructor as well because the instructor found his/hersuccess in teaching and thus achieved desired teaching outcomes for the TPACK case.Furthermore, it is realized that there is a good agreement between the qualitative assessment resultsas above and the quantitative results presented in Figures 4 and 5. Such combination and
characteristic and thus subject to penalty (0, -1, -2). Therational is that the presence of a simple example can be helpful to reflect the concept, however,multiple permutations indicate lack of understanding fundamental concepts. Students notcreating a cheat-sheet or failing to bring it for use in the exam received a score of zero. Tocompute a representative composite an additive scoring approach was used. Using this criterioneach cheat-sheet was evaluated by two reviewers.Figure 1 provides an illustration of two different authorized cheat-sheet examples used in amidterm examination. The cheat-sheet appearing on the left received the scores: density 2,organization 2, readability 3, formulas 0, and examples -1. This received a total score of 6
also conducted with respect to the “Feedback Controls” comic, which depicted theindividual PID tuning parameters proportional gain (KC), integral time (τI), and derivative time (τD) asboxers, with the strength and speed of their punches relating to the impact that the respective tuningparameters would have. An instructor who had taught a section of Process Controls in both the fall andspring of the 2014-2015 academic year, implemented the comic in a section of both semesters in the2015-2016 academic year. A similar exam question was given to students in all four semesters thatdirectly addressed the effects of the individual PID tuning parameters. Class sizes varied, as reflective of the growth in the enrolled students at Northeastern (10
and Completeness (“3Cs”).Questions to help the instructors evaluate students’ projects are detailed in Table 5. Such aquestionnaire evolved over many years based on input from students, faculty and employers. Table 4: Evaluation Questions for the Project Selection • Is the design a result of consultation with someone who will actually use the product? • Is the design suited to the users' diverse social and physical environments? • Does the design reflect the technology innovations in the field? • Is the analytical component of the design sound
; Faust 1994) by examiningimportant relationships reflected in the strength, direction, and complexity (or number) of tiesembedded in a network. The strength of such an approach is that it enables an analysis of socialphenomena beyond the abstract social structures (e.g. social, economic, political) traditionallystudied by researchers in the social and behavioral sciences (Wellman 1999).Ego-centered (or personal) networks make the individual the focus of attention where egodescribes people (alters) close to him or her (Boissevain 1974; Wellman & Berkowitz 1988).According to Wellman (1999), such investigations “enable researchers to study community ties,whoever with, wherever located, and however structured…and avoid the trap of looking
studies may have lesspatience towards changes in instructional methods and may find initial attempts at incorporatingactive learning disorganized [12]. This frustration with perceived disorganization was alsoreflected in the survey comments from older students, including that of the 20-year old studentquoted above. They were more likely to find the active learning sessions, especially those whichdid not include problem-solving exercises, as “busy work” and unnecessary for their success inthe class and may reflect differences in motivational factors and preferred learning environmentsnoted by some researchers [32], [33]. The differences in gender are more puzzling and arecontrary to what has been reported in studies of active learning
, Beghetto and Kaufman [46] added 2 additional c’s: 1) pro-c level creativity,demonstrated by professionals who haven’t reached Big-C eminence and 2) mini-c creativity,which focuses on personally meaningful discoveries that may occur while a student is learning.All of these definitions reflect the idea that creativity is the foundation of innovation; asinnovation is recognized as something new (product, process, etc.). Furthermore, creativitygenerates spaces where meaningful ideas impact society.To implement this approach, we relied on an evidence-based, active learning process thatintegrates techniques drawn from actor training, improvisation, and theatre of the oppressed[47]with creative problem-solving methods drawn from multiple, research-based
can be grown and improvedthrough the learning process; thus, they interpret failure as a need to exert additional effort oradopt different strategies. Those with an entity or fixed mindset believe that intelligence isunchangeable and are more likely to believe that poor performance is a result of a result oflacking intelligence [37].Stamm [38] shares that creating a climate in which this learner-centered model of highereducation is realized is not easy. The learner-centered classroom requires learner motivatedteaching is a paradigm shift from the traditional university practices. Strategies foraccomplishing this goal emphasize active and reflective learning trough project based learning,helping student make connections to see the relevancy of
evaluate theseresults in the context of a larger and a more longitudinal study. Nevertheless, the resultspresented here offer strong support for including more engineering challenges that embracesocial responsibility in the undergraduate engineering curriculum.AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the National Science Foundation for theirsupport of this work under the TUES program (grant number DUE-1245464). Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] National Academy of Engineering, “Grand Challenges - 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering,” 03-Feb-2019. [Online
students toencounter the core concepts and principles, while managing a specific project, thereby enablingthe acquired knowledge application. PBL goes beyond the relationships between knowledge andthinking, helping students to both know and do. In fact, it is focuses on doing something andlearning on the way [8, 12-27]. PBL main features from the student learning point of view are:1. In PBL, a student-centered approach, the focus is on the student competencies to design and toreach the solution, around their concerns and skills, the end product being a reflection of them. 2. In PBL the students solve problems, through self-management, project management, andcritical knowledge are enhanced, as they manage the work, offering frequent feedback, self