collegial and included room for dialogue and questioning.The decision to make the course mandatory was made largely based on data from the Y1 pilot,assuming that similar outcomes would result from a scaled-up version of the course. Littleattention was given to anticipating how changing the course from optional to mandatory wouldaffect student attitudes, beliefs, or motivations in Y2, in part due to the necessity of makingcourse planning and scheduling decisions for Y2 just a few weeks after the conclusion of the Y1pilot. The unfortunate reality of making an educational pilot fit within the ongoing academiccalendar and scheduling demands of a large public institution necessitates that logistical coursedecisions regarding classroom reservations
student who is able to think sociotechnically is that they will acknowledge, accountfor, and plan for the complex interplays between social and technical dimensions of engineeringacross problem defining and solving phases. In this section, we describe literature relevant tosuch behavior.One of the ways we conceptualize sociotechnical thinking is within the engineering habits ofmind, which are defined as the values, attitudes, and skills held by engineers [9]. Prior researchin engineering education has endeavored to identify engineering habits of mind and methods forteaching them. However, there does not seem to be a clear consensus about the most promisingways to address them in the classroom. This is especially true for habits of mind related
. However, due totechnical issues, the system is now in Hilo for “tweaking” [84]. If it works as planned, the systemwill remove 50% of the GPGP within five years. Interested observers can follow the project onFacebook, Twitter, or on the project’s website: https://www.theoceancleanup.com/system001/.One of the more fanciful solutions received an honorable mention in the annual EvoloSkyscraper Competition. In 2011, Serbian designers Milorad Vidojević, Jelena Pucarević, andMilica Pihler envisioned a series of underwater skyscrapers, “floating islands that will be used toremove and recycle the garbage patch. These are self-sustained structures organized by functionhierarchy with four communication cores that connect three main programs—collectors at
planning course goalsmight continue to consider the value of adding new course competencies for technologyinnovators [48] like ‘communicate effectively about career dreams’ and ‘develop abilities toanalyze and enjoy emotional experience.” Do modern students equate a high need to performwith innovative endeavors?Revealing stories indicate gender alliance: Participants show gender alliance in the way theyanswer the prompt, each gender projects themselves onto their storytelling counterpart withimages of motivation. Interestingly, writing a story through the perspective of the gender thatyou identify with increases the amount of affiliation themes.Affiliation responses in general suggest respondents need to be relatable and care about
element of social value; saving money was still the only social value identified.Instead of articulating specific social value their proposed project would bring to the localcommunity in which they planned to implement it, the Youth Scholars described in their posterand through their discourse with audience members that the project would bring benefits to andavoid harm to the world in general. But such articulation of broad and vague goals does notexhibit a sophisticated understanding of social value creation through energy engineering.Furthermore, the Youth Scholars’ second poster exhibited a higher level of applied knowledge ofownership, reinvestment, and extraction, articulating ways that ownership of technologies shapesthe design of a system
allowed in person recruitment for a large population (throughemails forwarded by course instructors and visits to class); they provided a mechanism to gather richqualitative data regarding participants’ expectations and concerns about their upcoming transition towork; and, perhaps most importantly, they allowed the researcher to establish a rapport with eachparticipant in a face-to-face setting prior to shifting to electronic data collection. The initial interviewalso included questions about when individuals planned to begin work and what email address theypreferred that the researcher use for post-graduation contact. Using this approach, we recruited 13 3participants from a single major at one
educational curricula, K-12 STEM programs after-school programs, and comprehensive school reform initiatives. Across these evaluations, she has used a variety of evaluation methods, ranging from a multi-level evaluation plan de- signed to assess program impact to methods such as program monitoring designed to facilitate program improvement. She received her Ph.D. in Research, Measurement and Statistics from the Department of Education Policy at Georgia State University (GSU). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Development of a Portable, Experimental Platform to Demonstrate the Role of Material and Cross-Section in Beam
," Quantitative Methods in Psychology, vol. 112, no. 1, pp. 155-159, 1992.Appendix A: Complete SurveyCategory Variable Item DescriptionCMG KVO_01_pre I know a lot about opportunities to become involved in the community. KAK_01_pre I am able to plan or help implement an initiative that improves the community. SD_01_pre I appreciate how my community is enriched by having some cultural or ethnic diversity. KAK_02_pre I have the professional knowledge and skills that I need to help address community issues. BI_01_pre I intend to stay current with the local and national news. SCB_01_pre I have often
participants at the end of their second year of transfer using a semi-structured interviewprotocol. During the interview, students were asked to: 1. describe their overall transferexperience; 2. contrast the second year of transfer with the first year; 3. describe experiences intheir majors; 4. describe their participation in activities or resources introduced through theprogram, and their perceptions of the benefits of these resources (academic supports, socialactivities, undergraduate research, internships, career activities, etc.); 5. identify any programbenefits they perceived; 6. identify short and long-term future academic and career plans; and7. suggest recommendations for program improvement.Analysis Participant demographics and outcome
client or profession.” the beneficiary.”Verbal and Nonverbal CommunicationIn the classroom, both the planned content and the way in which it is organically presented areimpactful. It is between these lines, “the space between the official and unofficial… the intendedand the perceived” [2, pp. 35] that hidden curriculum exists. This influence can be manifested inthe verbal and nonverbal communication; not just the lecture or material but the way it ispresented and the way that educators carry themselves in relation to it. Gofton and Regehrexpressed this implicit power of faculty because “we are teaching far more than we know. Everyword we speak, every action we perform, every time we
Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Prof. Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego Michelle M. Camacho is Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego. She began her career at UC San Diego in 1999 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for US Mexican Studies, and later as a UC Faculty Fellow in Ethnic Studies. In 2015-16, she returned to UC San Diego as a fellow of the American c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
given special event T-shirts, but thecolor of the volunteer T-shirts differs from any color worn by the girls, for easy identification ofvolunteers and participants.All GEE activities are designed by volunteers, and the event itself is organized entirely byvolunteers. Each yearly event requires about eight months of planning. Usually around 75volunteers plan and execute the event. No volunteer is compensated for organizing or managingthe event. The total cost for each activity is limited to a few hundred dollars (USD), due to budgetconstraints on the event. GEE is funded by donations from corporate sponsors and partners. Theevent is free to participating girls; registration is performed using an online form. GEE isadvertised to DPS female
determining relevant content on students. One activity (“pre-draft” in Table 3) guided student creation of the content, as students were asked to make therubrics themselves for the new assignment. Specifically, they were given a rubric, like Figure 1,and asked to fill in the description box for each feature. The student-created rubrics were thenused by the TAs when grading and by peer review partners when providing feedback. Having thestudents decide for themselves what constitutes the focal features of the rubric, like precise andaccurate use of concepts or professional style, encouraged them to reflect on the assigned genreand build genre flexibility (the first writing learning goal). Introducing planning processes, i.e.the “pre-draft
researchers who were part of the larger project to teach K-2 teachers about integratingSTEM and CT into their classrooms. Specifically, the teachers learned about the PictureSTEMcurriculum, which was developed by the authors and others to integrate STEM with literacy ingrades K-2. The curriculum is described in the following paragraph. Following the PD theteachers were given the supplies needed to implement the curriculum. During the school year,the teachers worked closely with each other before and during implementation to help each otherwith understanding of the curriculum and how it would be implemented, planning for anddesigning classroom management strategies, and to offer other support as needed. During thefollowing summer, in their second year
, inspired by service learning pedagogies [25], we continually ask our students toformulate plans for future action based on their experiences. In short, we ask students: “What?So What? Now What?”MethodsTo explore student capacities for building their own self-concept, learning to develop meaningfuland rewarding relationships, and maturing their capacity for deep learning, we relied on existingwork for the development of self-authorship in the intrapersonal, interpersonal and cognitivedomains, synthesized into a rubric (see Table III).We selected four students who had completed our series of seminar courses, three of whom wereengineering majors, to trace longitudinally, comparing their reflections at the end of the programto earlier work in their
students in ourcourse. Through these case studies, we would also like to provide a compelling example of howtightly bound the ethical choices are to the design and implementation decisions of a mobileapplication that is developed for social good.5.1 Combating obesity in young adolescentsObesity has become a major public health issue in most countries around the world. In addition,adolescent obesity is increasing at an alarming rate all over the world. Many attempts have beenmade to address this issue that ranges from doing exercise to following a diet plan to playinggames. While the existence of the above works indicates the past and ongoing efforts to combatadolescent obesity, they are clearly not enough since it is still rising. Researchers
, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] G. M. Rogers and J. K. Sando, “Stepping Ahead: An Assessment Plan Development Guide,”Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana, 1996.[2] M. J. Allen, Assessing Academic Programs in Higher Education. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.National Academy of Engineering Committee on the Engineer of 2020 Phase I, “The engineer of2020: Visions of engineering in the new century,” National Academy of Engineering,Washington, D.C., 2004.[3] T. Curran, C. Doyle, E. Cummins, K. McDonnell, and N. Holden, “Enhancing the first yearlearning experience for biosystems engineering
of the program. Several of these mentions were rather ordinary. Alejandro recalledmeeting a man from the United States and talking with him about life and their plans. Kevindescribed meeting locals and discussing sports or comparing their city to Kevin’s home city.Steven reflected on conversations about stereotypes and history with locals. Ben expressed adesire to interact with locals and then described two successful encounters: one about sports andone about U.S. politics. Finally, James described meeting people in bars and meeting a “certifiedcommunist” among other locals. James reflected on his interactions with various non-programparticipants throughout the trip: For me, the most lasting value of RSAP comes down to the countless
to know more people I have classes with. I'm actually being able to get in groups with people that I know actually do their job, which helps tremendously. I’m in 202 right now, and I think this is the first time that I've had a group that everybody actually shows up.Throughout Sean’s military service he grew an expectation of what he believed working in ateam should be like. He believes that his student peers do not meet that expectation and, due tothis belief, he sees them as subpar. Because of his opinions of civilians, Sean spends his timefocused on his studies and his civilian job, but not on social activities with peers. Noted above,he comments on two years into his plan of study being the first time his entire team has
their efforts, which can be difficult both for tenure-track faculty who are evaluated based onresearch publications as well as non-tenure-track faculty with high teaching loads.In reflection of these lessons learned, we plan to continue to implement these projects in classeswherever relevant, including both design- and energy-focused courses, in addition toindependent study and research projects. Continuous project refinement is needed to ensure thatprojects are well-defined and tractable for students. All projects will require regular feedback andinteraction with facilities staff to ensure both project relevance and implementation of projectresults. Finally, the continued pursuit of institutional-level resources will be needed to providethe
that any instructor wishing to usethis spreadsheet in the future should insure that the GTAs understand its intended use and followit.Given the feedback from the students in Instructor A’s section that they would like to avoidduplicate table mates, she is planning to use the spreadsheet next year, as well. This means thatboth Instructors A and C, and probably several of the other course instructors, will be using anapproach that could be called visibly pseudo-random grouping under the conditions that studentsswitch groups on the day of their lab and then remain sitting with that group until the next lab.As a means of addressing any concerns that the pseudo-random spreadsheet seat assignmentprocess is not “visible” or “random” enough, all
Code Value Monitoring of process overall Planning (Sense making) 1 Composing 2 Process Level Editing 3 Internal and external processes involved Revision 4 in the process of actually writing text Collaborators & Critics 5 Technology 6 Task
reliability of numerical modelingfor regional and local coastal management, operation and maintenance of the navigationchannel, planning and guidance for future O&M activities. Permission was granted by theChief, US Army Corps of Engineers to publish this information.REFERENCESButtolph, A.M., C.W. Reed, N.C. Kraus, N. Ono, M. Larson, B. Camenen, H. Hanson, T. Wamsley, and A.K. Zundel. 2006. Two-dimensional depth-averaged circulation model CMS-M2D: Version 3.0, Report 2: Sediment transport and morphology change. Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory Technical Report ERDC/CHL TR-06- 7. Vicksburg, MS: US Army Engineer Research and Development Center.Demirbilek, Z. and J.D. Rosati. 2011. Verification and Validation of the Coastal
the EA students to anew culture and delve into global awareness and logistic arrangements.2) After Returning from the Guatemala ExperienceDespite having prepared for the experiences by developing preliminary work plans in the fallENGR 98A course, the teams found themselves adapting quickly based on the site conditionsand emerging information. The limited timeframe and resources available in the rural villagemeant that they had to manage the project and timeline carefully. What appeared to be aherculean task was made achievable by dividing the project into sub parts and pairing projects tosmaller teams based on individual interests and strengths. Not only did this pair team memberswith tasks that suited their skills, it ensured that all the
Paper ID #26780Workforce Development Needs and Objectives of Today’s Transportation En-gineering ProfessionalDr. Kevin Chang P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow Kevin Chang, Ph.D., P.E., is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Univer- sity of Idaho, where he is focusing on traffic operations and safety, transportation security, and engineering education. Prior to his current position, Kevin was a traffic engineer with the King County Department of Transportation where he managed the Traffic Management Center and supervised the implementation of neighborhood transportation plans, livable
bachelors in engineering physics with a focus in computer science at The Ohio State University. His research has primarily been the implementation of technology for use in STEM education, as well as computational physics. He plans to pursue a graduate degree in physics at University of Colorado Boulder, where he can participate in research pertaining to physics, computer science and/or education.Mr. Nick H Abbott Ohio State University Mechanical Engineering student. I’ve done game design and programming as a hobby for 10 years. I’m interested in how we can create more immersion through VR and AR. I’m also interested in how to use technology in the classroom to teach complicated topics.Dr. Deborah M. Grzybowski, Ohio
provided related to their college career and the confidence instilled as aresult.The current plan is to replicate the topics and teaching style from the 2018 program in theupcoming 2019 program. Due to a professional change in location of one of the instructors, onlyone of the two faculty members will return in 2019. As new instructors are included, integrationof their ideas and attainment of their buy-in related to the class will be important. Future plansinclude conducting a longitudinal study with the summer 2018 students as they progress throughtheir college career.References[1] M. Ashley, K.M. Cooper, J.M. Cala, & S.E. Brownell. “Building Better Bridges into STEM:A Synthesis of 25 Years of Literature on STEM Summer Bridge Programs,” in
. first author was also present, and participated in dialogues ranging from the class work to career plans, summer travel,Students find open-ended challenge problems engaging, generic complaints, current events, and the rain in England (ormotivating, and interesting. The real-world applicability and lack thereof). Students had the opportunity to discuss theirthe collaborative and creative nature of their solution also suits respective backgrounds, interests, goals, aspirations
paper and a list of detailed design requires creative thinking, analysis of dynamics of instruction. The instructions are easy to follow, such the system (especially “before” and “after” contrasts), and as “draw an M at location (1)” and “draw a W at careful planning. It also requires experiences of game location (2).” With the standardized procedure, the facilitation and preparation. Ultimately, the simulation quality of work will be dramatically improved. The games should be effective in showing the concept, easy to results of most participants are expected to be similar implement, and enjoyable by participants. Hopefully the to the drawing in Figure 11