Paper ID #18363Innovative Manufacturing Education Experience for First-Year EngineeringStudents: Using a Seminar Course and Volunteerism to Enhance Manufac-turing SkillsMr. Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Eric Holloway currently serves as the Senior Director of Industry Research in the College of Engineering at Purdue University, where he focuses on industry research in the College of Engineering. From 2007-2013, Eric served as the Managing Director and the Director of Instructional Laboratories in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. As Director, he was in
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Paper ID #24998Engaging in STEM education equity work through a course: studying race,class and gender theory in engineering educationMs. Tikyna M. Dandridge, Purdue University Tikyna is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University.Mr. Hassan Ali Al Yagoub, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Hassan Al Yagoub is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research in- terests include diversity & inclusion, advising and mentoring, students’ persistence, engineering career pathways, and school-to-work transition of new engineers. He
evaluation and the online discussionboard, in addition to my classroom observations.Results and DiscussionAfter presenting my visual teaching and assessment philosophy, students were asked to completea three-question survey and engage in an online discussion about teaching philosophy andsyllabus. Overall, the results show my students’ satisfaction with my teaching philosophy. Figure3 depicts that 82.8% of the students strongly agree that the course syllabus, including myteaching and assessment philosophy, is clear, helpful, and matches student expectations. Notably,98.9% of the students agree and strongly agree with this course syllabus statement. Figure 3 The results of the first survey Likert question about the course syllabus and the clear
turnaround time for responses. This accommodates diverse communication styles and ensures timely support. Incorporating Minimum Meeting Requirements in Syllabus: One faculty member suggests including a minimum number of meetings with the instructor in the syllabus, setting clear expectations for student-instructor interactions. Utilizing Online Booking Portals: Faculty members express interest in or plan to continue using online booking portals as a means of streamlining the appointment scheduling process. Exploring Alternative Venues: Considering the current high student turnout, one faculty member suggests exploring a change of venue for office hours to better
focus on community building within engineering. Thenuances of my experiences inside and outside of the classroom over the course of my four yearsat this university inform my following recommendations and speak to the impact of positive andnegative teaching experiences encountered during my educational journey.Preliminary Findings and RecommendationsOur analysis of the instructors’ guide revealed that several policies have been implemented withthe intent of supporting student learning, but their impact falls short in terms of aligning withhigh-impact teaching practices and fostering inclusive learning environments. Syllabus languagewas the first item addressed in the instructors’ guide, with the following recommendationsstanding out to us: 1
learningcontents and transferring knowledge to online students. An effective course management systemprovides an important foundation by serving as a tool that allows instructors to create coursecontent and conduct interactions with students7.Instructional DesignInstructional design defines how a course is structured and can influence the learningenvironment. There are many elements that affect instructional design such as objectivesclarification, quality of the contents, learning strategies, learning motivation, and learningassessment18. Researchers describe objectives clarification as including a syllabus and learningpathways that must be provided to online students for successful course delivery22. Otherresearchers believe that strong contents can
after the first or secondMidterm exam. Those who barely pass the class with a letter grade D are required to repeat theclass to get a grade C or better to enroll in upper division classes where Fluid Mechanics is oneof the prerequisite courses. This setback significantly delays their graduation time.To increase better understanding of the first Midterm’s course materials and improve the averagescore of the first Midterm, students require more time to practice the theory of fluid statics. Thispaper describes a simple change in the course syllabus that was adopted to allow students withmore time to grasp the challenging concepts of the first Midterm. The purpose of this study is toimprove students’ success rate in the class with specific goal of
, statements on inclusion and accessibilityshould be carefully examined to review language, tone, and scope, thereby working to avoid‘othering’ students or making them feel that they don’t belong [63].In fall 2020 I took special care with my syllabus and course policies in my first-year introductoryengineering course. Unlike a normal semester, the course was entirely online. It was intended tobe synchronous, but a few students were across the world making the lecture time challenging. Icarefully explained the purpose of office hours and encouraged students to attend for bothcourse-related and general questions. Due to COVID all office hours were online. Students weregiven an opportunity to earn extra credit the first time they visited me during office
different professors taught sections EngineeringStatics in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with no common syllabus or commonassignments. Drop, withdraw, fail (DWF) rates varied from 2% to 78% – students picked theircourse section based on grade expectation. Over the years between 2005 and 2013, I taught moreand more of the offered sections, effectively reducing course drift and enforcing a common set oflearning objectives.Figure 1. Total Enrollment in Statics Total as taughtinby Enrollment Howard Statics, Fall and Spring Author's sections, Other faculty's
school Physics and Chemistry courses for admission into college levelengineering degrees. One of the reasons for a low number of local students entering STEM majorsat the university was found to be the lack of access to these courses among students in high schools.This study presents a partnership between a college of engineering and the local school districtfaced with low numbers of students enrolling in STEM majors, who sought to change the trend.Our partnership began planning in 2019 and started our first cohort the summer of 2020. The Officeof Inclusive Excellence and Community Engagement offered a physics course online during thesummer of 2020. Results from the feedback survey were collected to evaluate the effectiveness oflessons offered
underpinning, which aims to make them useful for as many as possible. But it doesn’t override the need to address individual student needs. It is important to note that even a course or experienced designer with a UD approach will not necessarily be appropriate for all students. For example, individuals are very different, even students with the same diagnosis. Students will still need accommodations on an individual basis. ● Thus, while using a UD approach to course design tends to make the course accessible for more students by accounting for variety, it does not account for everything.Acknowledging a Diverse Student Population● Increasing recognition of diversity ○ Including students with non-visible
. • State and Review Late Submission Policies at the beginning of their classes (requirements by immigration law and school academic policy) and read the course syllabus. Understanding the policies related to late submissions in your course and institution is essential. This policy can be in the course syllabus, online classroom, and the instructor's policies regarding late submissions. It is practical to clearly state that any late submission or missing deadline can cause instructors to deduct a certain percentage of the grade each day until zero. • Policy execution matters. Instructors must stay calm and assess the situation when late submission or missing deadline occurs. Working with international
faculty eagerness to integrate learned technology later to also improve face-to-face course delivery [15]. Drawbacks include possible faculty difficulty with adapting to newertechnologies, lack of technical support, and lack of student readiness [16]. As a result of the occurrence of COVID-19 pandemic, the transition to move from aformerly traditional or hybrid educational system to a largely online was sudden. Therefore, thispresented immediate challenges for those who were unprepared. The main purpose this paper isto look at student and faculty experiences during the pandemic in the Spring semester of 2020through the lens of faculty. This work is part of a larger study funded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) to address the
students to not ask questions that are covered on the syllabus?PurposeA syllabus has multiple functions that should be considered while creating the document. (1) Plan the course (for example, lay out the schedule and the assessments) (2) Communicate the objectives of the course (for elective courses, help students decide whether they truly want to take the course or not) (3) Serve as a “contract” or at least a “reference guide” for course policies (how to contact the instructor/s, coursework policies, etc)ContentAt a minimum, your syllabus should include the following information. Beneath each “main item”on this list are questions to consider as you decide what to include and how.• Course number, title, semester, section(s
acknowledgement, a policy on academic integrity,family education rights and privacy act (FERPA), mental health resources, disability resourcesand services, policies on religious observances, and sexual misconduct reporting obligations.Each institution may have their own recommended syllabus statements and instructors caninquire about recommended or required statements. An example instructor philosophy isincluded below. Your success and development throughout this course is my priority. Below you will find several beliefs that are paramount to achieving this goal: • All students are valuable and important; this course is designed to be accessible and inclusive. • Student-centered active learning is key to mastery and
platform.The relation between CDIO and these platforms are shown in Fig. 2. These platforms areillustrated below.1) Teaching integration platformThis platform can integrate, manage and adapt a variety of teaching resources withcustomization features including e-learning systems, virtual training or simulation systems,online to offline teaching laboratories, etc. The platform is employed for the management ofhandouts, simulation, courseware, practice, exams, and students, and it covers all teachingtasks of the required courses of related product projects. After learning all task-specificknowledge points involved in a CDIO product project, students can access and learn allneeded knowledge and skills to complete the project, for example, the application
hosted CC faculty members for a paid 9-weeksummer professional development program. A CC faculty member is paid $9,100 stipend in 3installments throughout the summer. Additionally, at the end of the internship, the CC facultymembers have the option to receive an additional $1,000 implementation stipend. Thisadditional stipend is received by the participants if they incorporate a portion of their researchinto a lesson plan, syllabus, or other course material.Recruitment and SelectionDeans and chairs of science, math, and engineering departments were contacted in order toadvertise this program. The funding did not provide for housing, so the selection was limited tothose community colleges that were close to UCB. Given the size of the state of
analysisactivities including:1. Content analysis of AM course syllabi will be used to develop lists of skills gained by students who successfully complete AM coursework. The unit of analysis is a syllabus from an individual course. All occupational completion points, student performance outcomes, or standards and/or certifications covered in the material will be analyzed through an iterative process using the codebook derived from relevant national, state, and professional standards and industry certifications. Researchers will also use established instruments to measure the extent to which the new professionals report entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial intentions [28-30]. In addition to qualitatively deriving areas of strong and weak
worked as a team to develop a syllabus that could be adopted by other instructors.The syllabus includes recorded video lectures of some of the graduate mentoring topics. This would allowother faculty members to easily adapt them for their classes. In addition, we developed reflective promptsfor students to think about weekly and in-class activities to supplement the course development.Another important aspect of this course is the use of labor based grading. This method was developed byDr. Asao Inoue [32] as a way to make grading less colonial. We have now tested this method in theCURE and M-CURE course and found it to be well aligned with the goals of the course, since it providesa structured method for organizing resubmission of student
lesson, or understanding of thecourse material without the anxiety of a graded quiz [2, p. 37]. Standard quizzes established inthe syllabus can be met with anxiety and cause students to underperform due to the added stress.With an extra credit pop quiz, students can demonstrate an increased understanding of the coursematerial without this added anxiety that is present during the standard quiz. Moreover, theconcepts covered in an extra-credit pop-quiz can be outside the typical structure of quizzesoffered since the quiz does not pose any threat to their grade in the course. Additional assignments outside of scheduled class time is another option for extra credit;however, student opinion and completion of these assignments are extremely low
and graduateteaching assistant. Student reflections are a selection of comments submitted anonymously viathe university’s end-of-term Student Evaluation of Instruction surveys.Instructor reflection:The transition of this thermodynamics course to online learning went surprisingly well. Coursecontents (e.g., syllabus, schedule, PowerPoint files, assignments, and other resources) werealready well organized within the university’s Canvas-based Learning Management System(LMS). The course also already used a McGraw Hill eTextbook with adaptive e-Learningreading comprehension questions (LearnSmart) and online AI-graded homework sets (McGrawHill Connect); these features were particularly helpful for the newly online course deliverysystem. Students
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the course was inconsistency across the various sections. Even when the same syllabus was used across sections, the fact that some students could not register in the section taught by their favorite instructor was a source of dissatisfaction. 3.2 approach # 2: several large lecture sections With this approach, classes were held in large auditoriums holding between 200 to 300 students in each session, with the same instructor teaching all lectures. The Advantages: This approach provided the much needed consistency in terms of syllabus, teaching style, exam difficulty, and workload across all class sections. Additionally, the staffing requirements
- tors of in-person, online, and hybrid format classes. Melissa continues to serve as a teaching consultant with CTL and focuses on projects relating to equity. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Revolutionizing Grading: Implications on Power, Agency, and EquityAbstractEven as we integrate inclusive teaching strategies and course design, the philosophy andimplementation of grading continues to be a large source of inequity in higher education. Gradessignal to students whether they belong within a course or degree major and dictate access toacademic and career opportunities. Consequently, even in a classroom
, interventions were put in place to set astandard for mentoring relationships so faculty and students could focus on their scholarship,progress towards degree, and maturation as independent researchers.The course outlined in this paper is the student side of the aforementioned intervention, buttraining is also being introduced to faculty simultaneously. The initial intention was for theseminar to be offered in three different formats throughout an academic year: (1) five-weekcourse with 2.5 hours sessions once per week; (2) two-day course with 6- hour sessions eachday; and (3) an online version. The course was piloted during the 2019-2020 academic year,during which 11 engineering departments across the College opted to make this seminarmandatory for
on thetopic. Five institutions (24%) estimated between 4 and 14 student contact hours on the topic andonly two respondents expected students to spend more than 14 hours on accessibility topics atthe graduate level. Overall, few differences were observed between the undergraduate andgraduate levels in expected student coursework exposure to accessibility topics.The survey requested information on the course number and title for departmental coursesoffering content related to accessibility and/or the ADA. Twelve civil engineering programsentered course information for 23 different courses containing ADA/accessibility content.Researchers located online course descriptions for twenty-two of the courses and obtained syllabifor ten of the courses
business solutions. They have noted how theBME students have utilized their skills in synergy and research to better communicate withpatients, engineers, and employees within the company. Some concerns the industrypartner has raised is around programming and the student’s lack of training. This concernties to a broader challenge within the OSU BME curriculum that does not prepare studentsfor the level of programming required. In the future, the industry partner will aim toinclude programming booth camps to ensure the students are prepared to handle thesechallenges.The future plan for this course is to become an official course. Currently the course isoffered as an independent study which does not require a syllabus and it is graded as apass/fail
beimplemented in the chosen course(s). During the two-year cycle, it is the departmental CCL’sresponsibility to implement the GenEd SLGs into the course(s) and assess the work with helpand support from full-time and part-time faculty members who are teaching the course(s). This isaccomplished by holding workshops (in-person or online), updating the syllabus, providingstudents with an assignment or project, changing or adjusting the topics covered in the course,utilizing rubrics, among other activities.Every semester, there is one Dean’s meeting for every School with all the CCLs invited toparticipate. During that meeting, the CCLs report on the progress and difficulties theyencountered. At the end of the two-year cycle the CCLs provide a final report