graduate students is expected. Grades and comments will be given to each group so that suggestions can be acted upon for the final written report. 7. All participating students, High-school teachers, and faculty will complete a survey on their perceptions on the organization, structure, logistics, strengths, weaknesses, and suggestions for improvement of the exchange experience. These will be used to help document the impact of the course.It is anticipated that students will learn from each other through the multiple case studies, theresearch and presenting as peers. The plan is to consult with professionals from the Center forTeaching Excellence at HU and UVA to design case studies that are sufficiently broad to
verified their circuit assemblies with a USB microscope andmade any corrections. Finally, students followed a basic test plan using a benchtop powersupply and multimeter. Some of the prototypes required test software to be programmed on theembedded processor to activate desired input/output (I/O) interfaces and related subsystems.Below summarizes the phases of the advanced electronics pilot program, each built on the priorstage: 1. Introduction to electronics prototyping, basic physics, and related math. 2. Specifying and buying components, including parts research and bill of materials. 3. Circuit board design with CAD software and design for manufacturing (DFM) principles. 4. CAD verification and design review. 5. Soldering with
at XYZ University to be exposed to the concepts of electricalengineering and computer science by integrating MPAD into their own custom RC cars. ThisMPAD implementation was also proof of its modularity aspect, where different RC cars were allable to utilize MPAD to add autonomous driving features to their design. This process exposedproject participants to various challenges in developing a system and scaling that to be used in acourse. In terms of future work for MPAD, there are several additions planned such as utilizingadditional sensors such as LiDARs for obstacle detection and switching to local hotspot and a localserver-based system for enhanced connectivity and restricted-free access.This course does provide a good concept where the
participatein an online survey by the external evaluation team from the Institute for Social ScienceResearch (ISSR) at the University of Alabama. This survey was a comprehensive assessment ofthe students’ experiences that included both quantitative and open-ended questions. The surveyincluded items measuring students’ satisfaction with various aspects of the program, attitudestoward the research and training they received, their perceived impact of the program on theirskills and future plans to be an engineer or computer scientist. Additionally, on the final day ofthe program each summer the evaluation team conducted a focus group during whichfeedback/discussion from the students was solicited. This focus group feedback was thensummarized for the
course design.Collaborative inquiry is an experience-based and action-oriented [16] method for jointlyinvestigating a topic of interest among an affinity group. In collaborative inquiry, members of theaffinity group share responsibility and power for planning and engaging in the research [15,16].Research involves repeated cycles of reflection and action, with each member of the team actingan equal participant-researcher.Here, cycles of reflection and action fit into our established course design cycles. Reflectionincluded informal discussions of course design thinking and tensions during regular coursedesign meetings as well as more targeted discussions at separately scheduled, less frequentmeetings. Action included engagement with design
. She primarily teaches thermal-fluid sciences as well as introductory and advanced design courses.Amelia Elizabeth Cook, Lipscomb University Amelia Cook is an undergraduate student in the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering at Lipscomb University. Amelia is studying mechanical engineering and, following her graduation, will be starting her career in engineering consulting as an EIT. She is currently researching the connections of humanitarian engineering projects affecting views of diversity, inclusion, equity, and professional development.Lewis Ngwenya, Lipscomb University Lewis Ngwenya is an undergraduate student at Lipscomb University. He is studying electrical and com- puter engineering and plans to get some
recommending it to the cohort participants is an example of instrumentalsocial capital. When asked about how the program had helped Pam during her first semester, sheresponded by highlighting how the different people behind the program helped her: [My faculty mentor]encouraged me and Kelly to join SWE and go on their trip to New Orleans. So that's a super fun future plan. [Graduate Student], I love talking to you about how you did industry, came back, and got your Masters, because that’s always something that was in my head. So just hearing different people’s… what they did, what their journey was, and trying to relate that to what I want to do. So the connections are just something that is amazing that not
impacts of this incident, such as the Chief Counsel’s Report [9], the ExecutiveSummary and 4-volume U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board report [10], theResearch Planning, Inc. report [11], the National Commission’s Report to the President [12], andthe National Academies Press 2012 free e-book on this blowout [13]. Student teams must reporton the technical and ethical causes of the disaster, and then expound on the global, cultural,economic, and environmental impacts of the event. Further, they examine the regulatory aspectsof deepwater drilling that were in place before this event, and changes introduced by the Obamaand Trump administrations. Student teams then apply this learning to analyze the case of anoilfield storage tank
theGradTrack program. This indicates that mentees-turned-mentors are interested in contributing toand building a community at Purdue Engineering. As the program continues to grow andestablish itself, increased feelings of belonging and community may naturally emerge.An important topic to discuss, and a future refinement that we plan to make to our study, is theincentivization of participants to respond to surveys. For this study all responses were madevoluntarily, with no incentivization. Only 16% of undergraduate student mentees and 46% ofgraduate student mentors replied to both pre- and post-event surveys. Due to the low surveynumbers, there is the possibility that there is volunteer bias in the data presented here. It ispossible that only students
through management and evaluation. Dr. Leggett-Robinson has more than 15 years of higher education experience which includes STEM academic and student success/support programming, strategic plan- ning, data analytics, and program evaluation. As a PI, she has garnered funds in excess of $3 million dollars from both NIH and NSF for broadening participation in STEM Undergraduate Education and as an Evaluator has worked on large projects with NSF (Big Data, BioGraph), Google CS-ER, and DOD STEM Student Success. Her distinguished record of STEM programmatic success (at HBCUs and PWIs) is well documented in publications and presentations. Dr. Leggett-Robinson’s latest publications, ”De- mystifying Promotion & Tenure: A
/content/article/sense-belonging-matters-s-why-academic-culture-needs-change (accessed Jan. 30, 2022).[7] J. R. Stark, “Black and African American Women Postdocs in STEM: Their Experiencesand Career Plans,” Ed.D., University of Pennsylvania, United States -- Pennsylvania, 2021.Accessed: Jan. 30, 2022. [Online]. Available:https://www.proquest.com/docview/2572582316/abstract/1D6772B35B5F423CPQ/1[8] I. H. Settles, M. K. Jones, N. T. Buchanan, and K. Dotson, “Epistemic exclusion:Scholar(ly) devaluation that marginalizes faculty of color,” Journal of Diversity in HigherEducation, vol. 14, pp. 493–507, 2021, doi: 10.1037/dhe0000174.[9] D. D. Bernal and O. Villalpando, “An apartheid of knowledge in academia: The struggleover the" legitimate
plan to prepare next time compared to this time.It can also help to have a final course review and self-assessment that shows the student how muchthey have learned and covered during the semester with the hope of providing many small masteryexperiences that culminate in one large one. Oftentimes, students get bogged down in the detailsof each week and forget to think about the experience of a course as a whole. Discussing the topicsand varying steps covered throughout the course can help the students visualize their progress.Even though the student did not set these steps up themselves, it helps them to see it in retrospectand can encourage this as a valuable practice to continue, even if future courses do not require it.ConclusionThis paper
elucidate priorities and to develop action planning [30].While frequently overlooked, needs assessment is the procedures of evaluating the educationalrequirements of individuals or groups and matching their needs with the curricula or training[31].This study aims to employ a comprehensive questionnaire survey that includes both open-ended and close-ended questions to identify various types of stressors experienced by students inCivil, Architecture, and Construction Engineering. The questionnaire can be found in theAppendix. The initial section of the survey is devoted to collecting demographic information,including age, gender, ethnicity, current job/student status, field of study, and whetherrespondents are first-generation college students. This
uncommonin research. Within academic research, there is a long history and a tendency to perpetuate thedominance of one group by building a collection of theories, methods and tools which disparageor ignore the knowledge and skills of marginalized groups. She offers the example of the PorteusMaze, which was used as a measure of intelligence in Africa at the height of colonial rule.Students were given a printed plan of a maze and had to trace a path they would follow to get tothe center of the maze. However, as more Africans than Europeans were successful in getting tothe center of the maze, this test was abandoned as a measure of intelligence [16].The PSVT:R was developed by Roland Guay in 1977 at Purdue University, cites Sorby andBaartmans [9
CIT21400 course. In this study, we integrated the microlearning instructional approach into CIT 21400to help engage students and retain the knowledge gained through the introduction to datamanagement course. CIT 21400 is a required class for all CIT students and a prerequisite for allother courses in the data-management concentration. Figure 1 shows the current plan of study forthe CIT data-management concentration; we draw particular attention to CIT 21400’s position asa prerequisite course for all data-management courses. Approximately 140 students who enroll inCIT 21400 will directly benefit per academic year. We anticipate seeing learning and performancegains over time as students continue in their programs as an outcome of our research
textbook combined with chapter contents.When using this case in the questionnaire, personal names, place names, numbers, andrelated expressions were simplified to form a shorter case of 251 words.Example: Question 1 of Case 1: Please list the role conflicts of the protagonist and briefly analyzethem.Question 1 of Case 2: From the protagonist's point of view, please briefly list all thecontradictions and conflicts of interest involved in the case, and prioritize these contradictionsbased on the ethical knowledge you have mastered.Question 2 of Case 2: Three action plans have been given in this case. First, the governmentproposed to build a public waste and garbage landfill in a sparsely populated area. Second, therich proposed to rebuild the
Paper ID #38103Reinvigorating Energy Teaching via Research with Engineers (Evaluation)Catherine Lynn BieseckerJustin McFaddenDr. Thomas Tretter, University of Louisville Thomas Tretter is professor of science education and director of the Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Plan- etarium at the University of Louisville. His scholarship includes collaborative efforts with science and engineering faculty targeting retention of STEM majors in entry-level STEM courses.Dr. Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville Brian Robinson is an Associate Professor with the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the Uni- versity of
need for furthersampling of participants from engineering colleges. We plan to increase the number ofparticipants who are institutional agents in engineering colleges prior to developing final resultsfrom this study.Preliminary FindingsPreliminary findings from second-cycle coding of data generated with six participants employedat five of the seven institutions included in the ongoing study are presented in this paper.Participants’ most common responses when probed about their perceptions of theassets/attributes military students bring with them to higher education, as well as current gapsand promising practices for military student support, are synthesized for each research questionand presented below.RQ1: Institutional agent awareness of
Preuss, EdD, is the Co-founder and Lead Consultant for Exquiri Consulting, LLC. His primary focus is providing assistance to grant project teams in planning and development, through external eval- uation, and as publication support. Most of his work is on STEM education and advancement projects and completed for Minority-Serving Institutions. He also conducts research regarding higher education focused on the needs and interests of underserved populations and advancing understanding of Minority- Serving Institutions.Dr. Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Alexander graduated with a BS in Engineering Science from Trinity University, a MS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech
workforce training, AM is also playing a transformative role due to its uniquebenefits. Besides enabling the production of highly sophisticated instructive models anddemonstrations, hence improving STEM education, AM is increasingly used as a vehicle toquickly, iteratively and feasibly allow students to build functional prototypes to test theirconceived designs. AM can also help educate students about concurrent engineering, how themanufacturing plan for a part must be developed early on during the design process to make surethat design corrections and changes are not made late in product life cycle, where such changesbecome disruptive and costly. AM can also be instrumental in giving students hands-onexperience with product development resulting
intention to leave the program, indicating that the items areperforming well to accurately capture attrition decisions.The group who graduated with a Ph.D. during the course of the year-long survey indicated higherlevels of stress than than the other three groups over the course of the year. We assumed that stressfactor is highly likely to affect people’s mental health and quality of life and work [37], which canresult in negative perceptions regarding their program and experiences. However, this group showsthe highest mean in Q1 (Persistence) and the lowest in Q9 (Intention to leave). For students in thefinal stages of their program, in which they are preparing a doctoral dissertation defense andnavigating future work plans influences these items
complete the course survey, it will count as passing one class assessment. We also setup a criterion to urge students to pass at least three assessments by a certain time in the semesterto have a passing grade at the time of issuing early warning grades and pass at least sixassessments by certain time to have a passing mid-term grade. We also requested students toemail the instructor a schedule (on a week-by-week level) as to what FE modules they plan towork on/complete each week of the semester with a plan to complete all the assessments beforethe dead week of each semester. To encourage more students to take the FE exam, students whoregistered for the FE Exam can receive a $100 reimbursement thanks to a donor's generosity.Students who passed the
identifying areas ofimprovement within a given system and suggesting opportunities for innovation. Thepromise of many programs is to use ST to evaluate existing knowledge and resourcesrelevant to a particular health systems issue, plan and execute an innovative solution toaddress the issue at hand, evaluate the outcomes of the implementation, and present thesolution to key stakeholders in the host organization engaged in personal self-evaluationand critical reflection [30]. More importantly, the programs promise to deliver“applications of ethical theory to health reform, systems approach to health programmingplanning and evaluation, international comparison of health systems, and an in-depthinvestigation of health sector subsystems or building blocks
Principles of Environmental Justice. https://climatejusticealliance.org/ej-principles/18. Pulido, L. (2017). Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Environmental racism, racial capitalism and state-sanctioned violence. Progress in human geography, 41(4), 524-533.19. Robinson, C. J. (2020 [1983]). Black Marxism, revised and updated third edition: The making of the black radical tradition. UNC press Books.20. Pulido, L., & De Lara, J. (2018). Reimagining ‘justice’ in environmental justice: Radical ecologies, decolonial thought, and the Black Radical Tradition. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1(1-2), 76-98.21. Whyte, K. (2016). Indigenous experience, environmental justice and settler colonialism. Environmental Justice
planning lessons, educators must account for the applicable digital environment tocreate a comprehensive and effective learning experience for children [106]. The Facilitator element (Figures 3 and 4a) refers to any adult, such as familymembers, friends, or educators, who acts as a gatekeeper for technology for young children.Their determination of children’s technology access should be in accordance with appropriateselection, usage, integration, and evaluation strategies."Stakeholders are responsible forassessing educators’ capabilities and providing professional development training thatincludes “in-depth, hands-on technology exercises, ongoing support for the latest technologytools, and examples of successful practices to meet outcome
lot of my early childhood experiences…primed me in this direction…definitely a lot ofexpectation to go into medicine or some STEM career.” Eya, from Nigeria, remarked,“Everybody wanted their child to be a doctor…my dad decreed that I was going to go to medicalschool.” Both Abeo and Eya initially planned to become medical doctors but became moreinterested in the research side of medicine while in college. Despite this career shift, each felttheir parents supported their decision. Eya shared, “I owed it to my parents that whatever I wasgoing to do, that I should do it to the best of my ability…and that’s what kept me motivated.”Participants also indicated that a “culture of science” permeated their households. Sanjay, fromIndia, whose father is
content and learning objectives related to diversity and inclusion, arevised course description was approved and reads as follows: “The role of the engineer is torespond to a need by building or creating something along a certain set of guidelines (orspecifications) which performs a given function. Just as importantly, that device, plan orcreation should perform its function without fail. Everything, however, does eventually fail and,in some cases, fails with catastrophic results. Through discussion and analysis of engineeringdisasters from nuclear meltdowns to stock market crashes to climate-driven catastrophes, thiscourse will focus on how modern engineers learn from their mistakes in order to create designsthat decrease the chance and severity
lot easier for me because I had two female CSprofessors right at the get-go, and that definitely made me feel more welcomed into the program.And ever since then, I've been treated exactly the same as everybody else, and I haven't reallyfaced any other barriers since then…. just the fact that it's a small school and you get to knowmost of the other people in your major. That helps out a lot, too. Because you can bounce ideasoff of other people that are working on the same thing.”As a sophomore, Rachel was interested in cybersecurity as a subfield of computer science. In thefall of 2019 she described her career plans in this way:“Currently I'm also interested in cybersecurity, but it feels like I haven't had much experiencewith it yet, just
on their specific interests and needs.The team received 31 applications for the summer camp, 18 from males and 13 from females.Figure 1 provides specific information on the grade levels of the applicants before the applicationdeadline. The team analyzed the data provided by the survey and application to plan the optimalclass size and curriculum to be taught that would cater to the majority of the campers. This helpedcreate a more tailored and effective learning experience for the campers. Number of Students 12 10 10 Number of Students
earned an M.S. degree in industrial engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Tabriz University. Her research interests focus on mental health and wellness in engineering, retention of engi- neering students from underrepresented groups, engineering student interactions with peers and faculty, and system thinking and system analysis. Dr. Gholizadeh has also work experience as an educational data analyst and strategic planning project manager.Mrs. Shanta A. Jerideau, University of South Carolina Shanta Jerideau is a doctoral candidate in the counseling education and supervision program at the Uni- versity of South Carolina (USC). Shanta obtained her B.A. degree in